How to Cook Perfect Pandesal

Pandesal. Pandesal is a Filipino bread, the most popular bread in the Philippines. It's often consumed for breakfast with coffee or hot chocolate. People prefer warm pandesal because it is often soft and more enjoyable to eat.

With a golden, crumb-coated exterior, slightly sweet taste, and soft, fluffy texture, this Filipino-style bread roll is delicious on its own or with your choice of filling. Perfect for breakfast or as a snack! Pandesal or Bread of Salt (which is also the title of a popular short story written by NVM Gonzales) is probably the most popular bread in the Philippines. You can cook Pandesal using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pandesal

1. Prepare of flour.
2. It's of sugar.
3. You need of instant yeast.
4. It's of salt.
5. It's of powder milk.
6. It's of lukewarm milk.
7. Prepare of butter.
8. You need of lukewarm water.
9. It's of breadcrumbs*.

Pandesal is the favorite "agahan or almusal" (breakfast food) of most Filipinos. Pandesal is a classic Filipino bread roll that is particularly eaten for breakfast. It is soft and airy and slightly sweet. Normally eaten as a sandwich with one's favorite filling.

Pandesal instructions

1. Mix 2 cups of flour and the remaining ingredients in a bowl. except breadcrumbs. add remaining flour until dough will form a ball.. elastic and not sticky.
2. Add 1 tbsp of flour if dough is still sticky...
3. Put in a greased bowl and let it double the size for 1 hour or so..
4. Transfer the dough in a lightly floured surface and devide dough into 24 pieces, each formed into a ball and toss in breadcrumbs..
5. Place each ball in lined wax paper and cover with cloth and let it stand for another 1 hour or until double in size..
6. Bake for 220 degree F for 20 minutes. Increase to 325 degree F for another 10 minutes or untill golden brown..

Pandesal is probably the most popular bread in the Philippines. Pandesal is a common bread roll in the Philippines made of flour, eggs, yeast, sugar, and salt. It is soft, airy, chewy, and has a slightly crunchy crust outside. Commonly referred to as "the poor man's bread", pandesal is a cheaper alternative to rice. Pandesal is yeast-based so you'll need to buy some.