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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