Binignit on Good Friday

Every Lenten season we Filipinos usually cook traditional foods for the holy week and for us who's Christians, the Holy week is a week of our fasting or not eating meat. And in every Good Friday we always cook the traditional food for this day, Binignit but there are some of us in our dialect Cebuano/Bisaya we called it Tabirak. Binignit or Tabirak is our kind of halo-halo where we usually cooked every Good Friday and this kind of food is best to eat when it's hot.

Yesterday was a Good Friday, a day when the son of Our Almighty God, Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us.

My mother kept calling me to go to our eatery yesterday since I told her I want to make a blog for it and I want to cook. It was 11 o' clock in the morning when I arrived at our eatery and mother was kinda mad at me because she wanted to cook it before lunchtime, I didn't know that her customers or suki wanted to eat tabirak so I said sorry to mother then she told me to do the picture taking haha then proceed to cooking.

Ingredients

These are the ingredients for tabirak or binignit

Preparations

Landang

My mother told her one of our helpers in our eatery to put the landang first in the boiling water because it will take time to make it soft, then a commercial rice and a glutinous rice, and the vegetables (yautia, carrots, camote), sugar (brown sugar and white sugar) and I kept mixing it inside the pot so that it won't burnt.

Glutinous rice

mixing

the vegetables

brown sugar

After 10 minutes, we add the sliced banana, my father was kinda late so we set aside the pot first and father took the extract of the grated coconut twice and we hurriedly put the 1st extract or the coconut milk while I am still mixing it and father put the pot back into the fire.

sliced banana

father is extracting the grated coconut by his bare hands and this is the first extract/the first coconut milk.

Next was the colorful pearls and vanilla, it was a nonstop mixing since we used a big pot and there's a lot of us that were going to eat this binignit. Then after 5 to 10 minutes mom said that the 2nd extract will be added and it was really hard to mix since the pot is so full that father decided to get a cup to lessen it a little and I proceed on mixing it, when father tasted the binignit he took in the cup he said that it is ready; father took it away from the fire and we serve it to ourselves around 1 in the afternoon. And I guess it took us less than 2 hours to cook the binignit.

the colorful pearls but it can't be seen though.

coconut milk

vanilla

it was the 1st coconut milk but it was the last ingredient to put, and I forgot to capture the 2nd coconut milk because it was full (father put it on a glass for water) and mixed. And as you can see the pot is already full so I was having a hard time to mixed it but father decided to get a cup for binignit to mix.

the binignit or tabirak :)

It's just kinda sad because my grandmother wasn't able to buy many ingredients because all the stores in our barangay or in our municipality Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte and our neighboring Municipal Linamon, Lanao del Norte were some of them are out of stock or not selling this kind of ingredient and so whatever but still we thank God for the food that is served for us and also for Jesus Christ for saving us in our sins.

Have a blessed day steemit community! And I am looking forward tomorrow since that Jesus Christ will be resurrected! :)

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