Cooking with Chryss! Pampanga's Best!

Puto Pao! (Steamed Rice Cakes)

I was jealous when I saw Jet's puto on fb... so I made some yesterday aswell. Dom please tell Jet to post more of her cooking skills so I can have more ideas what to cook

Ingredients:

2 cups rice flour
1 cup white sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tin (400ml) coconut milk or 2 cups

Procedures:

1. Sift all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Then add the coconut milk, mix well until smooth.

2. Put it in a puto/muffin molds bout 2/3 full.. (grease the molds first if you're not using silicone muffin molds

4. Optional: Sprinkle some grated matured cheese or put a slice of salted egg on top.

3. Steam them for 30-45 minutes. Or until you inserted a toothpick and it comes out clean.

yummy!!! Im also from Pampanga, kapampangan are really good cooks.

Thanks Ally! Nice to know I have kabalen here

Sorry Dom, nope.. I didn't know about it.

Siopao Asado

I'm a siopao lover after trying many times and using different ingredients so I can perfect the dough texture and taste like a real siopao bread. Here it is! btw, the asado filling recipe came from panlasangpinoy.com...

Ingredients:

For the dough
18 ounces flour about 500 grams
3.5 ounces sugar about 100 grams
2 teaspoons yeast
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup lukewarm water
2tbsp sugar for yeast mixture

For Asado filling
2 lbs pork, chopped into small pieces
3 tbsp lard or shortening
2 tbsp garlic, minced
1 large onion, minced
2 tbsp cornstarch, diluted in 1/4 cup water
4 tbsp soy sauce
4 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp hoisin sauce

Procedures:

Cook the Asado filling by heating the shortening in a pan
Saute the garlic and onions
Put-in the pork and cook until the color of the outer part turns light brown
Add the soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, and sugar then mix well. Simmer for
40 minutes
Put in the corn starch (diluted in water) and mix until the texture of the sauce becomes
thick then set aside

Make the dough by placing warm water in a bowl then add the yeast and sugar and mix well.
Leave the mixture for 15 minutes or until bubbles have formmed on top.
In a mixing bowl, put-in the flour, baking powder, shortening (or lard), and the yeast-
sugar-water mixture then mix well.
Knead the combined mixture until the texture of the dough becomes fine. Let the dough
rise by setting it aside for an hour covered it by a clingfilm or a cloth (tip: turn your oven on for 2minutes then turn it off, place your dough in the oven to rise)
Knead the dough again then cut into individual slices (12-14 pcs. bout 80grams each)
Flatten the dough until a round shape is formed using a rolling pin.
Put the asado filling on the middle of the flattened dough and wrap
Place the siopao in a steamer and steam for 20 minutes

Missed this a lot! especially their fatless tocino! yum yum!