Halo-Halo

Build the Meal Around Halo-Halo

• A hot afternoon
• Ube ice cream
• Fried snacks alongside

How to Cook Halo-Halo

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1. Chill four tall glasses in the freezer for 30 minutes before you start.

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2. Spoon the beans, nata de coco, kaong, macapuno, jackfruit and banana into the bottom of each glass in layers, about a third of the way up.

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3. Add a spoonful of pinipig over the fruit.

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4. Shave the ice finely — a proper shaver, or blitz ice cubes in a strong blender in short pulses until snowy — and heap it over the fruit right to the rim.

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5. Pour the evaporated milk over the ice slowly so it soaks down through it.

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6. Add condensed milk if you want it sweeter.

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7. Sit a slice of leche flan on top, then a scoop of ube ice cream, then a spoonful of ube halaya.

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8. Scatter with more pinipig and serve immediately with a long spoon.

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9. Tell everyone to stir it thoroughly before eating — that is the point of the name.

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Related guide: Choosing rice.

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Worth Knowing Before You Cook

Shaved ice, not crushed. Crushed ice makes a puddle.

Freeze the glasses first. It buys you several minutes.

Sweet things at the bottom, ice on top, milk poured through.

Leftovers

Assemble to order. The prepared fruits and jellies keep a week refrigerated.

Nutrition per Serving

No nutrition figures are given for this recipe: they cannot be worked out reliably from its ingredient list (some ingredient lines cannot be read). Why some recipes have none.