Send this Recipe to a Friend

 

Our Filipino rice-farming forefathers believed that there is nothing better to fill the stomach than rice grown and tended by one’s own perseverance. Whether it is simple boiled rice, rice gruel or rice cake it is prepared carefully in appreciation of the farmers hard work. In the province, it is still a sight to see women gathered around a tub of soaked rice telling stories as they wrapped suman. And if the variety of ways a suman is wrapped is any indication, it is of the artistry, skill and ingenuity of these women.

 

Suman sa Ibus Ingredients:

• 3 cups malagkit rice
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 cups thick coconut milk

Suman sa Ibus Cooking Instructions:

• Soak malagkit in water for an hour or ntil grains are swollen. Drain.
  

• Add salt nd coconut milk.  Mix well.
  

• Prepare ibus then fill with rice mixture.  Seal tubes and tie with strips of the ibus.

• Arrange the suman in a big saucepan and cover with water. Cover the pot and
  boil for 2 hours or until cooked.

• Serve with sugar or ripe mango.

How to wrap a Suman Ibu

• Fold the end of the buri leaf by 1 ½ inches.
• Fold the bottom edge into a triangle.
• Start rolling up the buri leaf in an overlapping manner.
• Roll up the buri to make a tube.
• Attach a small piece of wooden pick to secure the tube.
• Fill the tube with malagkit.
• Seal the ibus tube.
• Tie with strips of buri.

Tags: delicacy, rice

Related Recipes

• Sapin Sapin Recipe (5)
• Maja Blanca Recipe (15)
• Filipino Tamales Recipe (6)

No. of Views for this Post: 34,310 views

Pinoy Recipe Tag Cloud

-->