Preparing Moron: Leyte's Special Delicacy

One of the most exciting activities we did when we were in Leyte was the preparation of ingredients and cooking of Moron.

Moron is Leyte's delicacy. I could only eat these delicious delicacies when some of our friends and relatives from Leyte arrived. This is made from rice and glutinous rice milled very fine and cooked together with other ingredients wrapped and rolled in banana leaves and steamed for a few minutes.

The preparation

We went to the mountainous part of the land owned by my ates mother to inform her auntie to get some banana leaves and coconut. After that, we went to the market to buy all the ingredients and mill the rice and malagkit for 4th time until it was very fine.

Ingredients in Cooking Moron

1.2.5 kilos rice and malagkit rice
2.Margarine
3.Cocoa or tabliya
4.peanut
5.sugar
6.coconut milk of 20 pcs.coconut
7.Vanilla

How to Prepare

1.First sift the ground rice
2.Extract the 🥥 coconut milk.Sepsrate the pure one
3.Divide the ground rice into two.The other half will be added with cocoa and the other is plain white.
4.Mix all dry ingredients including the grilled peanut.
5.Add the count oil to the carajay Mix with the first mixture of dry ingredients and cook until the oil will appear. Set aside
6.Add again the coconut oil to cook the other mixture.Set aside.
7.When cooled Wrap it with banana leaves and tie using the sacks string.
8.Remember to place the the plain colored mixture first then the brown mixture at the middle
9.When all done steam the moron until it is cooked.
10.Serve while hot or preserved it for 3 days.

We enjoyed much with our cooking together with my ate and her relatives we were able to produce almost 200 pcs. It's not easy to prepare but it is delicious for early morning with a coffee. I'm thankful for the experience of cooking this famous delicacy.