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“Glutinous rice in coconut milk, studded with sabá banana, taro, ube, and sweet potato.”

Binignit

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Binignit is a Visayan dessert soup from the central Philippines. The dish is traditionally made with glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk with various slices of sabá bananas, taro, ube, and sweet potato, among other ingredients. It is comparable to various dessert guinataán (coconut milk-based) dishes found in other regions, such as bilo-bilo. Among the Visayan people, the dish is traditionally served on Good Friday of Holy Week.

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Binignit is a Visayan dessert soup where glutinous rice surrenders into coconut milk, soft and creamy, studded with slices of sabá banana, taro, ube, and sweet potato. It's the kind of dish that lives at the intersection of comfort and ceremony—traditionally served on Good Friday among the Visayan people, a dessert born from both devotion and the region's ingredient abundance.

Order it here when it has

  • multiple vegetable layers
  • creamy coconut foundation
  • ceremonial significance
  • regional Visayan identity

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