Ube (OOH-bae) is a purple yam indigenous to the Philippines. It’s often made into a jam called ube halaya, and that jam is used as a base or filling to make breads, ice cream, doughnuts and pies. Ube ...

Also known as purple sweet potatoes or purple yams, ube is a mildly sweet and starchy tuber native to Southeast Asia. It's a staple in the Philippines and Japan, but beloved throughout—and beyond—the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The author of the new book “Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes from my Half-Filipino Kitchen,” Arlyn Osborne stopped by New York Living to share her recipe for Ube Banana Bread. Osborne is ...

For the past decade Rosalie Kline has been making ube-flavored pastries out of her kitchen in Peoria. She sells ube buchi, sesame balls filled with ube paste, ube bread, sticky ube rice cake and more.

We’ve seen this popular Filipino ingredient on menus all over the U.S., but what is ube exactly?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Dotdash Meredith Food Studios Also known as purple sweet potatoes or purple yams, ube is a mildly sweet and starchy tuber ...