Ube Pudding Recipe

Name: Ube Pudding Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 2 tbsp raw honey (you may also use condensed milk); 1 cup coconut milk; 5 oz purple yams or Ube, steamed and cubed (you may also, boil, bake, or roast them)

One of these sweet treats is the Ube or Purple Yam Pudding. The traditional way of making it is by mashing or pounding them. This recipe is easy and fun!

Rating: (1)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 10 servings
Updated: Updated December 24, 2025

By Mari & Jacob Petrosky
Cooked, filmed, and tested in our Arizona kitchen

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Easy Purple Yam Pudding

Easy Purple Yam Pudding

Ube also known as purple yam is a tuberous vegetable. They grow in tropical countries like the Philippines. They are very easy to It is starchy with bright purple flesh. Its sweet-vanilla-like flavor and nutty texture are very tasty. We use this a lot in making different delicacies, and other sweet treats back home in my country the Philippines.

One of these sweet treats is the Ube or Purple Yam Pudding. The traditional way of making it is by mashing or pounding them. It is mixed with coconut milk and sugar. Some use condensed milk, honey, or any sweetener available there is. They are usually served as desserts or snacks. Because of its variant color, we also use them as food colors for baked foods, such as “Ube Bars”, pandesal, glutinous rice cakes, and a lot more.

This recipe is very easy to make. It does not involve any cooking or baking at all. You may pound them until they turn to mush. You may also use a blender like me! To learn more, join me in making them! Let’s get started!

This video was shot as a short on YouTube. Link below to the video.

Ube or Purple Yam Pudding Recipe

Ingredients

2 tbsp Raw Honey (you may also use condensed milk)
1 cup coconut milk
5 oz purple yams or Ube, steamed and cubed (you may also, boil, bake, or roast them)

Items You’ll Need

Blender
Measuring cups, bowls, spoons
Serving bowls • Rubber spatula
Butter knife • Mixing bowls
Steamer (if you wish to steam the yams)
Large pot for boiling water

Instructions

Peel the purple yam

Peeling purple yams for ube pudding recipe

Using a butter knife, trim ends and peel the steamed purple yam. Then cut them into cubes.

Combine the ingredients

Adding ingredients to blender for purple yam pudding recipe

Place the cubed yams in a blender. Pour the coconut milk and honey.

Make the pudding

pouring purple yam pudding into bowl from blender

When all of the ingredients are in the blender, pulse them until smooth. You may pause at any time to pulse the solids to the bottom. Then continue to pulse until the mixture has turned into a thicker smoothie-like consistency. Transfer into a serving bowl. Serve warm or chilled. Refrigerate for up to 5 days. Enjoy!

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