SABA

saba
a cooking variety of banana having the scientific name Musa saba


saging na saba
saba banana



The saba is much fatter and starchier than the typical table banana. It is sometimes referred to as a cooking plantain. Saba is rarely eaten raw.


Westerners sometimes call this banana variety The Grandfather of the Bananas because by coincidence saba means 'grandfather' in Hebrew.
 


nilagang saba
 - simply boiled and then eaten with brown sugar


banana-q / banana-cue / banana-que
 - coated in brown sugar, deep fried and then placed on a wooden skewer


turon
wrapped in spring-roll wrapper, sometimes with jackfruit, then deep fried


minatamis ("sweetened")
- cooked in sugar syrup
- can be eaten as is; also added as an ingredient in halo-halo


Saba is an ingredient in the stew called pochero.