Buko salad


Buko salad, usually anglicized as young coconut salad, is a Filipino fruit salad dessert made from strips of fresh young coconut with sweetened milk or cream and various other ingredients. It is one of the most popular and ubiquitous Filipino desserts served during celebrations and fiestas.
By changing the ratio of milk, buko salad desserts can also become beverages, known generally as samalamig. A frozen dessert version of the dish is known as ice buko.

Variants

Buko salad can have endless variations as it can incorporate numerous other ingredients ranging from fruits, gulaman jellies, sago, kaong, tapioca pearls, nata de coco, macapuno, and others. Some versions however are popular enough to be considered as distinct subtypes. They include:

Buko halo

Buko halo or buko halo-halo is a combination of buko salad and halo-halo desserts, usually served directly on a coconut shell. It differs from halo-halo in the larger amount of coconut used.

Buko melon

A variant of buko salad with chunks of cantaloupes and various jelly desserts.

Buko pandan

A very popular variant of buko salad whose secondary ingredient are green gulaman cubes flavored with pandan leaf extracts.

Ube macapuno

A salad made with another common traditional pairing, that of ube halaya and macapuno.