This bright purple yam is incredibly versatile. Ube is a major vegetable crop in the Philippines. The word ube (pronounced "ooo-bay") comes from the yam's name in Tagalog, the national language of the ...

Native to the Philippines, ube (Tagalog for tuber and pronounced OO-beh) is a purple yam that has played a central role in local food culture for more than four centuries, and has been gaining ...

WASHINGTON — Pastry chef Rochelle Cooper wanted to make her “Dunk-a-boos” Halloween cookies fun and unique. To her, there was an obvious and beloved ingredient to use: ube. The RAMMYS Pastry Chef of ...

THE ONLY RULE when making ube halaya in my Filipino family: If you’re snagging a bite, you’d better stir. The bubbling, electric-purple jam must be mixed steadily for nearly an hour on the stovetop.

With its eye-catching color and sweet-but-subtle flavor, ube has been on dessert menus everywhere over the past few years. A staple in Filipino cooking for generations, ube became Instagram-famous ...

Our ube cake has two fluffy ube cake layers sandwiching an ube jam, and everything is frosted in ube Swiss meringue ...

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