Halo Halo

Time to prepare: <15 minutes

Time to cook: 5 to 10 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients (4 persons):

2 Sweet potatoes (kamote) 2 Bananas (saba type) Strips of young coconut meat Cooked red beans Cooked tapioca pearls Half a kilo of brown sugar Shaved ice Evaporated milk Leche flan or custard egg & milk (you can buy them ready made) Sweetened ube or purple yam (you can buy them ready to eat also)

How to prepare:

This is a perfect summer dessert to beat the heat!

1. The first important thing to do is to cook the sweet potatoes, bananas and red beans in brown sugar until it caramelizes. Let them cool down. This could be made the day before.

2. Ready all your ingredients; sweetened beans, sweet potatoes and bananas, strip of coconut meat, tapioca pearls, and shaved ice. And now we are all set!

3. Get a big glass, and layer all these ingredients with the shaved ice being the last. Then pour your evaporated milk and a slice of leche flan and a scoop of ube!