Recipe: Tasty Ube Maja Blanca

Ube Maja Blanca. Ube maja blanca is a sweetened mixture of coconut, evaporated, and condensed milk with cornstarch added to thicken it into a luscious pudding consistency. Ube Maja is Corn Maja or Maja Blanca mixed with Ube Jam. For this recipe, I made the traditional Corn Maja at the bottom and Ube Maja on top to give it a nice divided color in the middle.

This coconut milk pudding has a purple color from Ube or purple yam. The name 'Maja Blanca' basically means 'white delicacy' and can be traced from Spanish milk-based desserts. For the ube maja blanca layer: place the corn kernels in a food processor and pulse until coarse. You can have Ube Maja Blanca using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ube Maja Blanca

1. Prepare of Coconut milk.
2. Prepare of Evaporated milk.
3. Prepare of Water.
4. You need of Condense milk (Ube flavor).
5. Prepare of Sugar.
6. Prepare of Cornstarch.
7. Prepare of Salt.
8. It's of Cream corn.
9. You need of Butter.
10. You need of Grated cheese.

Maja Blanca is one of those classic well-loved Pinoy desserts. Its gelatin-like texture, coconut flavors, crunchy corn kernels, and the sweet latik topping makes it too addictive for just one bite. The charm of the maja blanca is that its simplicity leaves room to be creative which will make it more unique. Maja de Ube This recipe I have here is a variant of the well known maja de blanca.

Ube Maja Blanca instructions

1. Combine 1st 7 ingredients, mix until sugar and cornstarch dissolves.
2. Cook over low fire. Stirring constantly..
3. When mixture becomes little thick add cream of corn. Stir continuously..
4. After 3-5 minutes turn off fire and add in butter, stir..
5. Transfer mixture and let it cool before adding cheese..
6. Chill for at least 2 hrs. before serving..

Instead of a plain maja, this variant has mashed ube in it which resembles a ube halaya because it contains a generous amount of ube (purple yam). May it be in a fiesta, birthday, christening, or the holidays, one is sure to see this delicious coconut pudding on the table. It's a more straightforward version of our classic Filipino coconut pudding, with fewer ingredients and easier steps than the maja blanca espesyal and maja de ube I also have on the blog. While the latter two include evaporated milk and condensed milk, the pudding base for this simple maja blanca is a basic. Maja de Ube gets the earthy, tarty sweetness of purple yam or more commonly known and beloved as ube.