Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Ube-Coloured Pan de Sal

For some odd reason, ube pan de sal has become such a craze in Manila during this pandemic.    Naturally, I wanted to give it a go since MacGyver is such an ube fan.  

My first batch in May was pretty good.  I even packed two pieces to give to our GP (who is a Filipino) when I went in for a consult.  I handed them over to him in a ziploc bag with full disclosure that it didn't really taste like ube but it was a decent tasting pan de sal.

I had been thinking about making a second batch but hadn't gotten around to looking for the recipe. Then out of the blue, a friend sent me a link from pagkaingpinoy.com for the ube cheese pandesal recipe this morning.  I took it as a sign and started the breadmaking process before logging in for work thinking I could squeeze in the forming and baking during my lunch break. 

The dough rose beautifully.


Unfortunately, there was so much work to do that I did not get much of a lunchbreak and therefore  did not have time to work on the pan de sal.

I did manage to punch down the dough and divide them into 24 pieces this afternoon. I also cut 24 pieces of cheese to put inside the dough however, I wasn't able to form the pieces until after 5PM.


I was still busy working but I had already gotten this far and I there was no turning back.

I rolled the dough in breadcrumbs before attending a call.


Then baked them while I was in the middle of a meeting.


By the time my meeting ended, RD had already eaten two pieces.
(They still did not taste much like ube but they were still very yummy.) 



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