Puto Bumbong Recipe

Puto Bumbong, it is a purpled-colored sweets cooked in tubes that are placed on a special steamer. When cooked, they are removed from the tubes, topped with butter, and sprinkled with sugar and niyog (grated coconut). They are then wrapped in banana leaves until they are ready to be eaten.  It's popular during Christmas season in the Philippines.

Ingredients:

1 Kilogram malagkit (glutinous) rice, mixed with
125 grams ordinary rice
1 pc mature coconut, shredded
butter or margarine
violet food coloring
banana leaves
water
salt
sugar

Cooking Instructions:

Soak malagkit and ordinary rice mixture in salted water with violet food coloring for 1 hour. Let dry overnight by putting inside a flour sack. Put something heavy on top to squeeze out water. Mixture is ready for cooking the following morning. Heat steamer (lansungan) with enough water.

Put a small amount of rice mixture inside bamboo tubes(bumbong). Attached bamboo tubes to lansungan or steamer. When steam comes out of bamboo tubes, remove and immediately push out puto bumbong. Top with coconut shred and sugar before serving.