IVATAN RECIPE

UVED BALLS

For ChefRafi.com Show:

English	Ivatan
Good day! I’m Chef Rafi! Welcome to my show!
Today I am cooking uved balls from the beautiful Batanes Islands in the Philippines.
Do you know where the Ivatan live? Here’s the map:
Uved balls are delicious and very easy to make.
These are the ingredients you will need.
Let’s start cooking!
First I will crush the onions and garlic.
Now I will add shredded carrots for color.
Add the ground pork and flying fish.
If you don’t have flying fish, you can use bangus.
Add the grated banana corm.
Mix everything together with an egg.
Add pepper and salt to taste.
Now we will roll the mixture into balls.
Gisá the balls to brown them.
Now add water and steam them until they are cooked.
You can also make sinuhad by steaming uved balls with yams.
They are ready to eat and so delicious.
It’s best to eat these with sopas (turmeric rice) and boiled gabi.
Let’s eat! (Kain na tayo)
Thanks for watching my show.
Come back to see me again next week here at chefrafi.com.
Are you from Batanes? If so, write me and tell me how you cook Uved Balls!
Now let’s learn some Ivatan proverbs. Guess what these proverbs mean:
What you do to your parents, your children will do to you.	Amu dimo sa nganiba u inapuen mo, am nanayahen mo ava u canib da dimo nu camanganacan mo.
It is better to go home and weave a net than to stay on the shore and watch the fish.	Mapipia nu sumavat ka a maysaosaod su sagap as canu caviden mu du calawangan manalamad su among.
Do not gore the peg where you are tied. [Do not forget your heritage].	Ulungen mu ava u kakedkeran mu.

For recording the Ivatan, please speak normal to fast speed as the scenes in the video are short. Do not speak slow or the sentences will not fit. The total voice time will be about 2 to 3 minutes. Leave a short pause between sentences so I can more easily cut up the file. If you don’t like the way you said something, just say it again and I will erase the first rendition. We are so happy you can help us with our Ivatan video and very excited to put it together! Feel free to make any changes, add proverbs, etc. We usually teach a few proverbs during the show.

Also, feel free to add anything you like, e.g. a message, picture, video, etc. and I will amalgamate it in the project. I will put quiet music in the background so the Ivatan voice should be relatively loud and clear, “radio announcer style”.

Ingredients (for reference): Flying fish, giniling a baboy, grated banana corm, egg, pulverized pepper, garlic, onions, carrots, and salt.