Suman

== Description ==
Ibos (Visayan) or suman (Tagalog) is basically malagkit (sticky rice) wrapped in either banana leaves or coconut leaves.
== Ingredients ==
* 2 cups of malagkit (sticky or sweet) rice
* a can of coconut milk
* fresh ginger or maybe anise seeds or anise extract
* sugar
== Directions ==
# Cook malagkit just like you cook rice in your rice cooker but instead of using water, use coconut milk - about two-thirds of the can, when cooking malagkit, you have to use a little bit less of liquid than cooking regular rice.
# we don't use ginger.. we use langka///
# If you don't have ginger, add a tablespoon or two of anise extract or if you have the seeds, a sprinkle will do.
# Once the rice is cooked, you can wrap them in the banana leaves (or foil) like you wrap lumpia.
# Take about two tablespoons full of the rice, put them on top of your banana leaf sheet that you have cut into square pieces about 6 inches by 6 inches or so, then roll to make a log, then twist both ends and tuck under the log.
# Note: in order for your banana leaf not to tear, you have to run the leaf over a flame.
# You also need to wipe the leaf with a piece of damp cloth.
# Place the rice on top of the darker side of the leaf (this side doesn't have that whitish powdery stuff that covers the underside of the banana leaf).
# Now, after you finished wrapping your rice, put them in a casserole or a large sauce pan, then boil it, covered, again using coconut milk just enough to cover your pile (use the remaining coconut milk diluted with water).
# I remember my mother used to cook the wrapped malagkit overnight but i suppose you can finish this in one hour just how i did the batch above - or until the liquid evaporates.
# Serve rolled in sugar or as a side dish for ripe manila mangoes.
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