Kakanin or Native Delicacies are integral part of the Filipino food culture.
Uniquely Filipino, these are sweet munchies or sometimes desserts made from rice, sweet rice or root vegetables that are slow cooked and usually made with coconut or coconut milk.
Ask your kid to choose between a Biko or a Cake to take to school, and I bet he chooses the latter.
It is not one that kids tend to bring to school as baon or packed snack, as there is a connotation that it is 'too native' and not cool.
On the other hand, grown-ups, especially those living outside the Philippines, crave for these delicacies.
Quite laborious to make, not all households make their own Kalamay or Halayang Ube.
Most would rather buy than say, stir a sticky sweet rice for an hour until it gets chewy.
What qualifies a sweet delicacy as Ka kanin?
All these make them really special and worth all the work!
Kutsinta
Sticky Rice Cake
Cassava Cake
Cassava Pudding Made with Coconut Milk, Eggs and Butter
Carioca
Fried Sweet Rice Balls Dipped in Sweet Coconut Syrup
Halayang Ube
Purple Yam Dessert
Suman sa Lihiya
Sticky Rice with Lye Water Wrapped in Banana Leaves
Maja Blanca
Creamy Coconut Corn Cake
Bibingka
Rice Cake Cooked in Banana Leaves
Kalamay-Kapit
Sweet Rice Dessert with Latik Topping
Kalamay-Kapit with Arnibal
Sweet Rice Cake in Sugar Syrup
Sapin-sapin
Multi-colored Sweet Rice Cake
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Palitaw with Yema Filling |
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