How to Cook Delicious 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 have Pandesal using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pandesal

1. Prepare of bread flour.
2. It's of butter or margarine.
3. Prepare of salt.
4. You need of sugar.
5. You need of yeast.
6. It's of skim milk.
7. Prepare of whole egg.
8. It's of bread crumbs.
9. You need of milk or water.

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 step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 220 °C.
2. In a mixing bowl put all the ingredients together, make sure to seperate the yeast in to salt. Mix 4 min slow and 6 min fast. Add water or milk if needed..
3. When the dough is ready transfer it to a floured surface and let it rest for 5 to 10 min..
4. Then cut lengthwise about 3 inch thick and let it rest again for 10 to 15 mins. Cover it with plastic or bowl..
5. Then punch the dough making it flat and make it long by stretching then fold into half then roll it using fingers and palm together and form a long baston..
6. Then roll it to bread crumbs and cover and then cut into 1.5 inch thick using a dough cutter and place it into a baking tray, make sure there's shortening or margarine on your baking tray so that we will be able to remove the bread easily. Rest from 45 min to 1 hour covering it with plastic.
7. Then bake into the preheated oven, 10 to 15 min.

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.