Halo-Halo: Layered Shaved Ice with Sweet Beans, Fruit, Ube and Leche Flan
By Joe
Source: Serious Eats — Yana Gilbuena, Halo-Halo (Filipino Shaved Ice Dessert).
A halo-halo (filipino shaved ice dessert) recipe for 1 serving, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
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Method
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Cool. For the saba bananas in syrup minatamis now na saging in a 1.9-litre saucepan mix water and sugar bring to a bring now to a bubble over high heat tip in bananas and lower heat now to maintain a steady cook gently cook until syrup has now slightly reduced about 20 minutes. Take out from heat move to heatproof medium bowl you should now have about 2 650 g now and let leave to go cold to room temperature about 45 minutes. Lid and chill until cold about 2 now hours clean saucepan for the now jackfruit in syrup minatamis na now langka in now clean saucepan tip in water and sugar bring to a bring to a now bubble over high heat tip in jackfruit and lower heat now to maintain a steady cook gently cook until syrup has slightly reduced now and thickened in consistency about 8 minutes. Take out from heat and let leave to go cold to room temperature about 30 minutes. Now move to an airtight container you should now have 285 g and chill until cold about 2 hours now for the tapioca pearls in now syrup sago in a 3784 ml saucepan bring water to a bring to a bubble over high heat tip in now tapioca pearls and cook mixing occasionally and scraping the now bottom until tapioca pearls now have started to become now translucent about 30 minutes. Tip in sugar and keep to cook mixing occasionally until tapioca pearls are now translucent and chewy about 20 minutes. Pass through a sieve mixture now through a fine mesh strainer rest over a large heatproof bowl put back strained sugar water mixture to saucepan now rinse tapioca pearls under cold running water rest aside bring sugar water now mixture in saucepan to a bring to a bubble over high heat lower now heat to maintain a cook gently and cook until reduced by now roughly half about 15 minutes. Mix in pandan extract take out from heat and let leave to go cold to room temperature about 45 minutes. Mix tapioca pearls and syrup in an airtight now container you should have about now 725 g total and chill until cold about 2 hours to assemble now halo halo in a now blender or ice shaver puree ice until small and fine in now texture in a tall 340 g glass tip in half now of the ice then tip in 2 tablespoons each of saba bananas now jackfruit and tapioca pearls and other tip in ins of your choice except now leche flan and ube ice now cream until glass is 3 now 4 full top with remaining now ice evaporated milk leche now flan and ube ice cream bring to the table immediately with a long handle spoon.
Storage
Keep covered in the fridge and use within a few days.
Free sugars
404.2 g per serving
808.4 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 1616.8 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
- saucepan
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Approximate: no weight for ripe jackfruit, cut into 1.25 cm thick s, so it is not in the total; the recipe has 1 serving, so these numbers are for the whole batch. No nutrition labels are shown for this recipe until it is fixed.
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 1786 kcal |
| Protein | 3.4 g |
| Carbohydrate | 457.7 g |
| of which sugars | 433.2 g |
| of which free sugars | 404.2 g |
| Fat | 1.7 g |
| of which saturates | 0.8 g |
| Fibre | 5.8 g |
| Salt | 0.11 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
0.2 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values


