Tupig

Do you know tupig?

Its one kind of rice delicacies Ilocano love to have for special occasions. Its made from glutinous rice added with young coconut milk, red sugar and wrapped with wilted coconut leaf in elongated form.

Different towns different tastes and ways of cooking. One place I truly love their tupig is the town of Luna of La Union province.

I always buy tupig being cooked and sold along the way. You can see the vendors cooking the tupig in their traditional way by being place the made tupig atop the fire or charcoal. The wilted banana is dried in heat and will be removed when the food is truly cook.

And inside the banana leaf is the brown and delicious rice delicacy that really taste good with the brown glutinous rice and the brown sugar. The coconut is young meat. And because it was done in the street you know its freshly bake. In fact you can buy while its hot.

And its cheap. Its good to have it as merienda while enjoying the beautiful tourist attractions of the are like the Bahay na Bato or the pebble beach.

Kapet-Kapet

kapet-kapet

KAPET-KAPET

(Side Dish)

(Kapet-kapet is a rice delicacy semilar to other delicacies like the pasingaw and white calamay and other sticky and white rice delicacy made from rice flour or bellaay)

Ingredients

• ½ salop malagkit nagiling
• ½ puting asukal
• 3 pieces nakayod niyog
• 10 dahon ng pandan

Procedure

1. Ipakulo ang nakayod na niyog. Haluin ito hanggang maging malagkit.
2. Pakuluan ang pandan leaves.
3. Paghaluin ang malagkit at puting asukal. Gamitin ang tubig na pinagkuluan ng pandan leaves upang ihalo sa malagkat at puting asukal. Haluing mabuti hanggang lumapot.
4. Ibalot ang plastic wrapper sa ibabaw nito. Gamitin ang langis ng latik, ilagay ito sa ibabaw ng plastic at ikalat upang hindi kumapit ang ilalagay na malagkit.
5. Pagkatapos lagyan ng oil, lagyan ang bandehado ng hinalong malagkit.
6. I-steam sa malaking kawali.
7. Pag naluto na ang malagkit, hanguin ito at palamigin.
8. Lagyan ng latik ang ibabaw nito at irolyo ang malagkit (huwag isali ang plastic).
9. Hiwain ang nakarolyong malagkit.
10. Puwede nang i-serve.

Ilocano Rice Delicacy, Dila-dila

dila-dila, rice delicacy merienda

Dila-dila is one of the very own delicacy of Ilocano. Soft and tasty, very white and very yummy. This is not always in the table or occasions but once it is serve, it will be gone in 60 seconds. Why? It's everyone's favorite.

Dila-dila could be translated as tongue, maybe because of physical look and softness. Literally it also means tongue.