Halo-Halo (Filipino Layered Dessert)
| Cuisine of the Philippines
Ingredients
- 1½ cup shaved ice
- ½ cup chickpeas in syrup
- ½ cup red mung beans in syrup
- ⅓ cup nata de coco (coconut gel in syrup)
- ¼ cup kaong in syrup
- 1 tbsp ube jam (sweet purple yam paste)
- 2 scoops ube ice cream
- 2 ea. 2 inch cubes leche flan
- ½ cup evaporated milk
- Pinipig (toasted flattened rice), for serving (optional)
Instructions
- Cover the bottoms of two serving bowls or glasses with a layer of shaved ice.
- Top the ice with the chickpeas, mung beans, nata de coco, kaong, and ube jam.
- Top with ube ice cream and leche flan, then pour the evaporated milk over everything.
- Sprinkle with pinipig, if using.