Puto Cheese Pinoy Style

Puto or steamed rice muffins is not only popular in the Philippines but as well as abroad. Some variations are Puto Cheese, Puto maya, Puto Seko, Puto Ube, Puto Bumbong, Puto Mamon or Puto Pao. The best selling item is Puto Cheese although you could as well try Palitaw, Leche Flan,or some Candy Recipes for your offline business.

As an OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker), living your paycheck to paycheck life is tough especially if you are receiving just enough or sometimes not even enough to support your overhead expenses. Just now I felt that one should be well equipped to cope up with the hard times. Better yet, one should have a blog site to maintain (online) and a sort of offline business to try on.

While I was thinking of some unique ideas to sustain my food and transportation allowance this month, I came up with an idea of making a homemade Puto or Steamed Rice Muffins. I remembered my Tita Jane's recipe way back in Davao and gave it again a try. It's a sure hit! We used to sell this stuff as a gift to friends and relatives and sometimes as corporate gifts.

Adding different food colors to the batter like purple, yellow and green would make it attractive and easy to sell. Puto making is a good business opportunity because it is easy to make, with less capital and very affordable to the market. You can try it too.

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Ingredients:
1/2 c All Purpose Flour
1/2 c Cake Flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 pcs eggyolks
3/4 c sugar (divided)
1/3 cup water
1/3 c evaporated milk
1/4 tsp vanilla
2 pcs. eggwhites
slices of quickmelt cheese

Preparation:
Sift all dry ingredients three times and set aside.

In another bowl, beat eggyolks until lemon colored, add 1/2 c sugar gradually and continue beating.

Fold in flour mixture to eggyolk mixture while alternately add water and milk. Add vanilla.

In a separate bowl, beat eggwhites until soft peak forms. Add 1/4 c sugar while beating continously until stiff and fluffy. Fold in egg batter.

Pour mixture in a Puto molder about 3/4 full and top with cheese slices.

Steam for 30 minutes. Let Cool.

yummy article!

articel source: http://expatpinaybiz.blogspot.com/2010/03/puto-cheese-pinoy-style-offline.html

Filipino Chicken Empanada Recipes

Anyone can give a good recipe for chicken Filipino empanadas? Better ones are NOT spicy or cheese filled etc. Thanks! Cupidtoo … Thank you. Sounds like a great recipe. One question though … What purpose is served milk? Do keep the chicken moist or something else?

Chicken pie for the Empanada filling 2 cups cooked, flaked chicken 1 onion chopped 2 cups cooked, diced potatoes 1 green bell pepper (optional) 1 / 4 cup evaporated milk 1 / 2 tsp. pepper powder salt to taste saute onion, add all ingredients except milk. Cook for 5 minutes, add milk and cook for another 3 minutes. Cool. Then fill the dough. Bread 2 cups all-purpose flour (no sifting) 1 tsp. fine salt 6 tbsp. water 2 / 3 cup butter or margarine 2 tbsp. white sugar Mix sugar, salt, and flour. Cut in butter with a blender or 2 knives until it resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle water and mix well with hands to form ball. Knead lightly. Sprinkle flour on a board and roll out dought the 1 / 4 "thick. Cut using a round of daisy (a medium size plate can be used without modeler. Pook big up-side down the dough and cut with a knife). Then, fill each cut dough with 2 tbsp. of sauted fillings. Food mass (in the form of a half months, press one end to another. Brush with egg yolk or milk. Ayos a greased baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven until crust is golden brown.

article source: http://www.malditah.com/filipino-recipes-empanada/