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6 Filipino Kakanin Recipes for All Saint's Day
Living in a predominantly Catholic country means that millions of Filipinos celebrate All Saints’ Day or Undas as we more commonly call it. During November 1st, Undas is celebrated with loved ones, both passed and alive. And what better way to celebrate Undas with loved ones than feasting over Filipino Recipes. As early as the day before Undas, families are already preparing their recipes for cooking. They’ll have a great feast at home or at their cemetery to visit their passed loved ones and spend time with them for a few hours or the whole day. Some cemeteries don’t allow food to be brought, but for those who do, families love to bring their homemade finger foods and few select meals with rice. Here is a list of best Filipino Kakanin recipes for All Saints’ Day: 1. CASSAVA CAKE Cassava Cake is exactly what it sounds like. This delicious and filling kakanin is made up of simple ingredients including grated cassava, condensed milk, evaporated milk, coconut milk, eggs, coconut cream, and grated coconut. It’s no wonder that the final product when bitten into will taste oh so deliciously sweet with the earthy flavor of the cassava. Families will make a platter of this sweet golden brown Filipino delicacy, cut it into little squares and share it with the whole family to enjoy at home and the cemetery. 2. PUTO This list would be invalid if we didn’t include puto as one of the recipes. Be in the home or at the cemetery, puto has become a staple treat to serve during the Undas. Because it’s relatively easy to store and make, Families love to snack on puto as they drink and share stories at their lot at the cemetery. This delicious treat made of gelatinous rice is easy to prepare and the recipe can be easy to modify using different flavors. When puto is served, it’s easily one of the foods in the table to run out. 3. SUMAN Suman is this very sticky but delicious native Filipino delicacy or kakanin wrapped in banana leaves. It’s one of the most convenient snacks to bring to the family lot in the cemetery because it’s usually wrapped in banana leaves or buli palm leaves tied in bundles or formed in a triangular shape. The food inside the leaf is this delicious and sticky rice cake usually made of glutenous rice or malagkit rice, coconut milk, and sugar. A small bowl of brown sugar is usually used for dipping the suman to eat. 4. KUTSINTA Kutsinta is another variety of kakanin typically served during the Undas. Similar to puto, kutsinta is a steamed rice cake made of rice flour, brown sugar, and lye that gives it its distinctive rich brown color. It’s also typically topped with grated coconut when served to make for an eye-catching contrast between the light color of the coconut and the dark brown color of the kutsinta. Filipinos love to take native delicacies like kutsinta to visit their passed loved ones because it’s recipe is relatively easy to follow and quite convenient to take outside the home. 5. PALITAW Translated in English, palitaw means ‘to surface’ and that’s because the cooking process of palitaw has a flat circular white though is submerged in boiling water only to surface when it’s cooked. Afterwhich the rice dough is topped with grated coconut, some sugar, and crushed seeds. Palitaw is a delicious, light treat to share with loved ones both in the cemetery and in the home. 6. MAJA BLANCA Maja Blanca is the last kakanin or native Filipino delicacy commonly served on Undas on this list but there are certainly many more kakanin out there we haven’t mentioned. As the name implies, Maja Blanca is influenced by the original Spanish recipe, Maja Blanco. It’s a delicate, soft and light treat made of coconut milk and cornstarch mixture boiled over a low flame. The result is a delicious treat with a delicate flavor and creamy white in color.
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LEGACY OF A READING TEXT
Success is not achieved through mere gazing on the sky or a frail tapping on an ocean, it’s not like any of those question and answer portion of a pageant where you would just stand there and passively saying what you wanted to convey, no it isn’t. Achieving success is like a research study, if your subject is the sky then find a way to reach and discover more of it, if you wish to unravel the secrets of the ocean and marine life, dive through it, and if you have your advocacy, show it through your efforts and action and not just purely on words, because that is a vivid manifestation of paving our headway through progress, the true essence of achieving success.
There’s this one story that I read wherein I was able to learn something which is one vital factor that got me to better interpret what success really is. The story reflects the life experiences of an ideal woman that possesses the qualities of a remarkable doctor, researcher, wife, and a mom. To most of the people , it isn’t easy to balance everything most especially when it comes to their works, sometimes they get too caught up with it making them susceptible to losing the track of time, and that’s when I realized how important time management is. Pursuing on our career wouldn’t be there if there’s no motivation and if we don’t love what we do, and that’s where passion serves its purpose. If we wish not to be misguided on our path, remember to always look up and let our passion be our escort. And of course with passion comes hard-work, because if you really love what you do , then you are most desperate enough to reach every angle of achievements on your work by virtue of our patience just as what the speaker did on the selection. And if there’s hard-work, there’s always this dedication inside us that pushes us in spite of the setbacks and challenges, foreseeing every light of hope towards reaching the very end of the rainbows, of achieving the pot of gold, because the character wouldn’t be able to receive three consecutive awards of her endeavor without the merit of these qualities. Indeed, she deserves the attribution to our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.
Those were my realization of this great doctor’s triumph over achieving her success. And I will most certainly make her a role model of my life together with those astounding people who have reached the very peak of their roaring success, rest assured integrating every learning and suing the impeccable qualities of her ever splendid personality into every aspects of my life, because that is how I will prosper, that is how I will become successful. Now, the better question is, if you’ve read the reading text, would you be like her?
Achieving success is like a research study, if your subject is the sky then find a way to reach and discover more of it, if you wish to unravel the secrets of the ocean and marine life, dive through it, and if you have your advocacy, show it through you efforts and action and not just on pure words, because that is a vivid manifestation of paving our headway through progress, the true essence of achieving success.
*If you wish to read the text the link is provided below;
https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/business-life/2014/06/30/1340085/love-affair-got-me-close-great-doctor
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REACHING HANDS
The thought of community service was tedious to me. I somehow think of it as a waste of time. Back when I was a child, my parents used to volunteer on those kinds of services, I don’t understand why, but I was just about to find out as I engage on to a similar activity.
Our section was subjected to do community servicing by means of giving food for the homeless. After class hours, the lot of us contained the whole jeep, afterwards, an unexpected bonding took place. The laughter and fun that were shared was indescribable along the journey, it was just the second day of class yet the social interaction was perplexing. By fair means, I learned quite a bit out of the vast array of benefits that I can probably get.
At the store, a number of us were assigned to do the transaction and I was one of them. We waited for a few minutes, it was a bore but the music somehow changed the atmosphere. Then it was already our term, me and my companion held our breath before we could actually speak, that was either because of nervousness or demureness because of the random people looking at us. Either way, we successfully managed to make it through.
After transacting at the store, we hurriedly look for potential places where the homeless could possibly be staying. Our group decided to look for an old woman and by God’s virtue, we found just the ideal receiver. We can see the intimidation from the looks of other people, we didn’t mind it instead, we gravitate our attention to our goal. Nanay was shook, although she didn’t said a word, we felt her gratitude by the tears that she shed and in her gratifying smile. I was touched, we were actually, I realized that a simple deed can open my heart and mind and can affect the souls of the needy. I should say that happiness began to build up inside me.
Our journey continued, the remaining box were divided by whomever we found along the way, an old man lying compassionately on the façade of a building, street children that were innocently playing, all of them showed off stirring smiles and heart-rending thankfulness, that’s why, the tiredness just went away. Now I found out why my parents loved to volunteer in community servicing, it’s not because of what they can get but because of what they can give, not because they were forced to but because they loved to; things that I learned on my own.
Although ‘twas but a short time, I find it really tiring yet gratifying. From the experience that I obtained, the honor that I earned, and the lesson that I learned, I will bring those with me until the end of time. On the other hand, I want other people to discern how important it is to engage in community servicing and make it as an obligation. As the saying goes “Small acts when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world”.
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