After Christmas, we are going to prepare for the New Year’s dinner. In the Philippines, we call it media noche. Now that I live outside my home country, I usually want to bring something Filipino in gatherings like Christmas or New Year’s eve dinner. However, I often struggle what to make that is easy to make but will still tastes good and ingredients are available in the nearest grocery. And it dawned me – why not make maja blanca.
Maja blanca is like pudding but you do not need to bake it! It is a Filipino dessert or snack mainly made of coconut milk. Below it the ingredients and how to make it:
Ingredients:
400-ml coconut milk
350-ml evaporated milk
400-ml condensed milk
1/2-tsp salt
1/2-cup granulated white sugar
1 1/2-cup corn starch
1 1/2-cup water
1-cup whole kernel corn
Preparation time: 25-30 minutes
Procedure:
1. Combine coconut milk, evaporated milk, and condensed milk in a pot. Put the pot in a stove under medium heat. Mix it well until there is no curds.
2. Add the sugar and salt in the mixture and mix.
3. Dissolve well the corn starch in the water. Make sure there is no corn starch curds in the water and the mixture is homogenous. Add this to the simmering pot of milk mixture.
4. Continuously mix until it begins thickening and then add the corn. Make sure to add the corn when the mixture is not very thin but before it gets very thick.
5. Mix very well until all the corn kernels are evenly distributed and the mixture gets thick.
6. To make it very Pinoy, put it in a bilao. But, if bilao is not available, the baking pan will work fine.
7. Cool and serve with cheese (optional)
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