Philippine Purple Yam Casserole By Nicole Ponseca. Filling Ingredients: ½ stick unsalted butter 3 large Philippine Purple Yam/Ubi, peeled and cubed ...

Ingredients: 5-6 medium sized ube (purple yam) 4 C of fresh or canned coconut milk 2 C of sweetened condensed milk 2-3 tsp of anise seeds Steps: 1. Peel the ube and boil until soft, but not mushy.

Ube Jam, also known as Ube Halaya, is the gorgeously purple traditional base for most Ube desserts in the Philippines. It’s so simple to make, and I’m lucky to have had some authentic help along the ...

ube halaya( purple yam jam) toast, Philippine food (Kyoko Uchida / Alamy Stock Photo) You can make ube halaya yourself, using Okinawan sweet potatoes as a substitute if you can’t find ube.

You may have seen ube, also known as purple yam or purple sweet potato, popping up on trendy food blogs and on Instagram. But this trending tuber has deep roots in the Philippines, where it’s a ...

The Philippines’ purple yam ube—beloved for its nutty taste and fragrant hint of vanilla—has conquered social media with its vivid violet hue. Try this easy recipe for chewy ube candies, and ...

(Butter is traditionally used in ube halaya, but when I accidentally left it out, it was just fine.) 1 small ube/purple yam (about 1/2 lb/250 g), boiled or roasted, then peeled and grated or ...

In English, ube is Dioscorea alata or “purple yam,” a root vegetable with tubers and is dark purple inside. It’s indigenous to parts of Asia, specifically in the Philippines.

Author, restaurateur and Food & Wine contributor Nicole Ponseca writes: "Philippine Purple Yam is a tuber almost exclusively grown in the Philippines and is otherwise commonly referred to as Ube ...