Binagol

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Binagol is a Waray delicacy that sits quite literally in its own vessel—a halved coconut shell becomes both container and identity. Mashed giant taro corms get luxurious with condensed milk, sugar, coconut milk, and egg yolks, then steamed until set, wrapped in banana leaves and twine. The name itself tells you what it is: bagol means coconut shell in Visayan, so binagol means 'placed in a coconut shell.' It's a nilupak with roots deep in Eastern Visayan tradition.

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Binagol is a Filipino sweet steamed delicacy of the Waray people made from mashed giant taro corms, condensed milk, sugar, coconut milk, and egg yolks. It is distinctively placed in half of a coconut shell and then wrapped in banana leaves and twine. The name means "placed in a coconut shell", from the Visayan bagol (coconut shell). Binagol traditionally uses the corms of the giant taro (locally known as talyan or talian); however, the corms of the taro (known in Tagalog as gabi and in Eastern Visayas, where the delicacy originates, as gaway) is also alternatively used. It is a type of nilupak.

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