Ube Halaya Recipe

Ube Halaya is a dessert made from puréed purple yam or “ube”. You’ll usually see ube halaya on top of a serving of Halo-Halo and inside a roll of an Ube-Macapuno cake. It is creamy, sticky and sweet which makes it an all time Filipino dessert.

Ingredients:

• 900 grams purple yam (raw)
• ¹/2 cup of butter
• 3 ¹/2 cups (28 oz) condensed milk
• 3 cups (24 oz) evaporated milk
• 1 cup cream cheese
• Sugar (adjust according to your sweet tooth taste =D)
• (Optional) purple food color- for color consistency 

Steps:

• Boil the yam, mash it and turn it to a purée.
• Heat a cooking pot and melt the butter in it.
• Pour-in the evaporated milk, condensed milk and sugar, stir it well.
• Add the purple yam in and continue stirring
• Stir it occasionally to keep it from sticking until the mixture turns really thick which usually takes about 20 minutes under low fire.
• Turn the heat off and add the cream cheese, mix well
• Transfer it to Jars or Llaneras and let it cool down.
• Chill it for about 2 hours and its ready to eat.