Minatamis na saging

Minatamis na saging (literally "sweetened banana")^[1] is a Filipino dessert made with chopped saba bananas^[2] cooked in a sweet syrup (arnibal) made with muscovado sugar and water. Some recipes also add a little bit of salt and pandan leaf or vanilla extract. Other ingredients can also be added like sweet potato, sago,^[3] or other fruits like jackfruit. It can be eaten on its own or added as an ingredient to other desserts (notably for halo-halo). Adding the dessert over milk and shaved ice also results in another dessert known as saba con yelo (also sabá con hielo in Spanish).^[4][5][6][7]

Minatamis na saging

Top: Minatamis na saging with jackfruit Bottom: Saba con yelo
Region or state	Philippines
Main ingredients	saba banana, syrup
Variations	Saba con yelo
Media: Minatamis na saging

The dish can also be cooked with coconut milk instead of water, which is differentiated as ginataang saba.^[8]

See also

• Nilagang saging
• Ice buko
• Banana cue
• Ginanggang
• List of banana dishes
• Maruya
• Turon
• Compote