[Filipino Recipes] Ginataang Bilo Bilo (Sticky Rice Balls In Coco Milk) (2024)

FAQs

What is the difference between Ginataang Halo Halo and Bilo-Bilo? ›

“Bilo-bilo” describes the round shapes of the glutinous rice dumplings while the “Halo-halo” describes the colourful ingredients liken to the cold “Halo-Halo”, a Filipino shaved ice dessert. “Pinindot-pindot”, describes the rolling and squishing of the dumplings while forming them.

Bua loy or bua loi is a popular Thai dessert featuring soft glutinous rice flour dumplings or balls in sweet coconut milk. The name translates to 'floating lotus', referring to the colorful rice balls floating in a bowl of milk.

Enjoy the warmth and comfort of a bowl of Filipino Ginataang Bilo-Bilo at home! It's made with langka, tender sweet potatoes, tapioca pearls, saba bananas, and the best sticky rice balls simmered in a sweet coconut milk soup. Serve as a delicious dessert or afternoon snack.

While binignit is popular in Visayas, people in Metro Manila know it better as ginataang halo-halo or bilo-bilo. The cooking method for both are largely the same; both are cooked in coconut milk and cream, and they both usually contain all or a combination of different tubers, saba, and/or sago.

The beloved summer treat Halo-halo is like an unofficial symbol of summer in the Philippines. The longing for something cold and refreshing under the sweltering heat, the sweet and surprising flavor bombs that remind us of happy times is what this colorful concoction brings to the table.

Halo-halo, also spelled haluhalo, Tagalog for "mixed", is a popular cold dessert in the Philippines made up of crushed ice, evaporated milk or coconut milk, and various ingredients including side dishes such as ube jam (ube halaya), sweetened kidney beans or garbanzo beans, coconut strips, sago, gulaman (agar), pinipig ...

High calorie

1 glutinous rice ball with fillings provides 60-70 calories¹, thus 1 serving of Tang Yuan (consisting of 5 glutinous rice balls) provides 300-350 calories and this equals to the calories of 1 bowl of white rice. You may need to run for 30 minutes to burn these calories.

Tangyuan – Sweet Rice Balls

It is a ball shape food made by glutinous rice flour. The shape and the pronunciation of tangyuan symbolize being together with your beloved one and family reunion. The lucky saying of eating tangyuan is团团圆圆 (Tuántuán yuányuán/ 'group-group round-round'): Happy (family) reunion!

It is called glutinous (Latin: glūtinōsus) in the sense of being glue-like or sticky, and not in the sense of containing gluten (which it does not). While often called sticky rice, it differs from non-glutinous strains of japonica rice, which also become sticky to some degree when cooked.

Bilo bilo (chewy rice balls)

Bilo bilo are the handmade rice balls traditionally made of water and glutinous rice flour. It's a very similar process to making handmade tapioca pearls. For this recipe, I made two types of bilo bilo from purple sweet potato and pandan leaves.

What can I use instead of glutinous rice flour for bilo-bilo? ›

Substitutes for glutinous rice flour

Rice flour is the best glutinous rice flour alternative. Furthermore, most rice flour substitutes, such as potato starch, cornstarch, and tapioca starch, will also serve as sweet rice flour substitutes.

Biko is a rich, chewy Filipino rice cake made with sticky rice, coconut milk, and dark sugar.

It is a popular comfort food and afternoon snack among the Filipinos, but it takes center stage most especially during the Holy Week. The Lenten Season invites Christians to fast and abstain from eating meat, thus a packed dish such as the binignit will sumptuously fill your stomach up.

Binignit is a Visayan dessert soup from the central Philippines. The dish is traditionally made with glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk with various slices of sabá bananas, taro, ube, and sweet potato, among other ingredients.

Pinindot or bilo-bilo is essentially a dessert dish meant to counter the savory tastes in a typical Filipino holiday meal. Its basic construct involves small glutinous rice balls (balls of rice flour that Heather rolls up by hand) cooked in coconut milk and sugar.

Halo-Halo's ingredients are layered from the bottom of the glass then filled with shaved ice, a pouring of evaporated milk, then topped with a scoop of usually ube ice cream; while Iskrambol is shaved ice, color and flavor mixed together to form a smooth shaved ice mixture scooped into a glass and then topped with its ...

Guinomis is almost a cross between a halo-halo and sago't gulaman. It hails from the Kapampangan people and is made of crushed ice, jelly, sago, sugar, evaporated milk, water and pinipig. To make it more substantial, you can add melon strips and replace the evaporated milk with coconut milk.

Bingsu (Korean: 빙수; Hanja: 氷水), sometimes written as bingsoo, is a milk-based Korean shaved ice dessert with sweet toppings that may include chopped fruit, condensed milk, fruit syrup, and red beans. The most common variety is pat-bingsu (Korean: 팥빙수), the red bean shaved ice.

While bingsu uses condensed milk, doesn't need sugar and is sweet as it is. For halo-halo, the sweetness is not based on the milk but the ingredients itself while for bingsu, the sweetness depends on the syrup and the amount of condensed milk one puts in it.