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Homemade Taho

Posted on: February 20, 2010 by:Vanjo Merano | Updated on: September 2, 2018

Taho is a Philippine street food sold by peddlers known as “magtataho”. It is a soft gelatin-like snack made from processed soybeans topped with caramel and tapioca pearls (locally called sago).What we have here is a homemade version of this popular Filipino street food. Instead of processing soy beans, we will make use of extra soft tofu or soft silken tofu which is readily available in most major supermarkets. We will also be needing tapioca pearls and brown sugar to complete our list.

Homemade-Taho-Recipe

I got this idea after posting the Tahô article in our Pinoy Street Food category. A good friend from Michigan commented on Facebook (since all posted articles automatically generates an RSS feed in our Facebook page) informing us on how she usually does her homemade taho.

I am aware that making one is a labor intensive task especially on the soy bean processing part. Since I like doing things from scratch (which has its pros and cons), I never thought of looking for other alternatives. Who knew that using extra soft tofu is the answer – I honestly had no idea. This is one good example on how we benefit from your comments. To all those who commented and gave their suggestions and opinions, thank you. Please keep them coming.

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4.5 from 2 votes

Homemade Taho

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 3
Author Vanjo Merano

Ingredients

  • 22 ounces extra soft tofu
  • 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup uncooked sago pearls you can also make sago using this other sago recipe
  • 4 1/2 cups water

Instructions

  • Pour 4 cups of water in a cooking pot and bring to a boil.
  • Put-in the tapioca pearls and cook for 40 minutes in medium heat.
  • Add 1/4 cup brown sugar and mix well.
  • Turn off the heat and let the sago pearls sit on the cooking pot until room temperature is achieved. Set aside.
  • Heat a saucepan then pour-in 1/2 cup of water.
  • Put-in 1 cup of brown sugar once the water starts to boil. Mix well and simmer until the mixture becomes thick. Set aside.
  • Transfer the extra soft tofu in a glass or mug then heat in a microwave oven for a minute.
  • Top the extra soft tofu with the cooked tapioca pearls and sweet syrup.
  • Serve warm. Share and Enjoy

Nutrition

Serving: 3g

 

Watch the cooking video:

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Comments

  1. diane says

    February 21, 2010 at 4:00 am

    Simple and easy to prepare yet full of health benefits!

    Reply
    • Pinky says

      February 22, 2010 at 7:39 am

      Hello!
      It’s so amazing to find your cooking website. I’m so impressed. You showed it so simple and easy to prepare our favorite filipino dishes.
      I was making TAHO ever since with the use of Soft Tofu when I came here to States 22 years ago. Taho is my favorite breakfast meal. I remember in the Philippines I always waited to hear “TAHO” outside the street in our house every morning and they do come back in the afternon for merienda. What I do here is just heat the soft tofu with water water and brown sugar at the same time in the microwave. Then, I have the best TAHO similar taste to the one we buy in the Philippines. I will try your procedure.
      I want to let you know that I truly enjoy watching all your cooking and it’s really great!

      Reply
  2. JU says

    February 24, 2010 at 11:08 am

    I love your style of cooking..I just made beef steak yesterday and my husband loved!!keep up the good work!!

    Reply
  3. XiaoYen says

    February 24, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    I love, absolutely love Asian desserts. My Filipino coworkers would make all these delicious desserts for our potlucks and parties. This is a very simple recipe. I love tofu too!

    Reply
  4. Vanessa says

    February 25, 2010 at 12:17 am

    I tried this yesterday but had to redo the tapioca pearls & follow the cooking directions on the packaging. Then everything was perfect, tastes better than store bought. Thanks for the recipe!

    Can u post more veggie recipes please? Tnx again.

    Reply
  5. hayyanah says

    February 27, 2010 at 12:10 am

    Hi Kuya,

    i was just telling to my friend that i am missing this Taho here in Middle east and just found out that its not kind of hard thing to do it. Thanks for posting this !!! Godbless and more power for your food recipes & advice more to come!!!

    Reply
  6. ~KATE~ says

    August 8, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    hello!!! i am your new follower. ^^,

    Reply
  7. Kristine says

    August 17, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    Hi, I can’t thank you enough for sharing your taho recipe. I am so happy to find out how easy it is to prepare my favorite taho. My cousin and I were just searching online to find out where we can find taho here in Florida, thank goodness we I came across your site. We haven’t had taho in like ages!! Thank you so much, really appreciate it!! Your recipes are so helpful, more power to you and your show.

    Reply
  8. bubbles says

    January 14, 2011 at 9:53 am

    omgooodneeessss.. thank you so so much! I am so gonna try this!!!!

    Reply
  9. malou says

    February 6, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    i recently found/subscribed to your website. and for the last 2 weeks, i made the following for the very 1st time--thanks to your wonderful and easy to follow video instructions.

    i made your taho recipe last night. this is so good and so simple to make. i used the mini tapioca pearls instead of the regular sized ones (quicker to cook/make).

    i also made your polvoron recipe last week for my family. they loved it—and wants to me make more! i won’t probably wrapped them as they go so fast!

    i also made the bananaque last night. my husband loved it! i think this will be a regular merienda food on the weekends.

    the next one i want to try is the pastillas de leche. i found powdered goat milk—do you think this can work too?

    thank you so much for sharing!

    Reply
  10. Bea Jenesa says

    April 6, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Hi! so i live in Saskatoon, Canada, where do you think can I buy extra soft tofu and tapioca pearls? My mom said theres no soft tofu @ walmart.

    Reply
  11. Fatimah Araneta says

    July 26, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    I’ve just read your recipe for home made taho. I can’t wait to try it out! But please tell me what I can do if I don’t have a microwave oven to heat the extra soft tofu for a minute? What can I do instead? Is this step absolutely necessary?

    Thanks in advance for your reply!

    Reply
  12. JC says

    July 30, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Tried this. Wonderful!!! I haven’t had Taho in 7 years. Wow. Love it! Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  13. hello says

    November 22, 2011 at 9:56 am

    thnks for the recipe.

    Reply
  14. Davao Food Tripper says

    December 1, 2011 at 12:07 am

    Would like to try making this one at home. But since I cannot make one for now. I would go out and buy taho for snacks.

    Reply
  15. BhABY_V says

    January 7, 2012 at 8:22 am

    can u still make taho if u dont have extra soft tofu?!

    Reply
  16. Sandy says

    January 24, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    Instead of microwaving the tofu, could I steam it instead?

    Reply
  17. Ida says

    January 29, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    I love your website! Whenever i miss Pinoy food, I’ll immediately look into your site for recipes and I’m getting great feedbacks regarding my cooking skills…if they only knew! My friends and my husband enjoyed trying our food. I’m currently pregnant with my first child and one of the things I love to take for breakfast when I had my vacation in Manila was taho. Since I came back, I was missing it so much. Thank God, I found your recipe here. Thank you and keep on sharing more recipes!

    Reply
  18. Elaine says

    January 31, 2012 at 4:51 am

    Thanks for this recipe. I have been wanting to eat this for so long. I was lucky enough to have found soy pudding here where I’m staying. So it’s pretty much like the real thing and smells like it too.

    Reply
  19. Diana Trinidad says

    March 1, 2012 at 4:26 am

    i love u kuya, lol…. thank you sooooooooooo much….

    Reply
  20. LF says

    March 22, 2015 at 9:18 am

    Thank u for this! It really is taho!

    I added molases to the syrup it makes it taste more like our taho street food. 🙂

    Reply
    • Erika says

      April 8, 2015 at 5:33 pm


      Oh really, how much should you add? Thanks 🙂

      Reply
  21. Kez says

    August 19, 2018 at 5:41 pm


    The recipe made making taho so easy! This was really delicious. I saw a website copied this too without giving credit, just fyi. If you want to check it out its balay.ph

    Reply
    • Vanjo Merano says

      August 20, 2018 at 10:49 am

      Hi Kez, thanks for the feedback. I’m glad that you liked it. Thanks also for letting me know about the copyright issue. Will act on it.

      Reply

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