About this dish
Sticky rice steamed in banana or palm leaves, a traditional Filipino snack often eaten with sugar.
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Ingredients
🍚2 cups glutinous rice
🥥1 cup coconut milk
🍃Banana leaves, for wrapping
🍬Sugar, for serving
Method
Serves 31
Soak glutinous rice, then cook briefly with coconut milk and a pinch of salt.2
Let the rice cool slightly.3
Wrap portions of rice tightly in banana leaves.4
Steam the wrapped bundles until fully cooked through.5
Serve warm with sugar for dipping.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Suman is a traditional Filipino rice cake, prepared in many regional variations across the country, cooked in coconut milk and wrapped for steaming.
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