I have been wanting to try cooking puto. Ive always been a fan, and the yummy pastel colors made me drool all the more. So when I mistakenly bought rice flour instead of glutinous rice flour for the palitaw i was eyeing to make, i knew it was the sign to tey making a batch of moist puto cheese recipe.
Surprisingly, making moist puto cheese was relatively easy. I only steam using the steamer basket that came with my rice cooker and the amount of puto i can make is just enough for meryenda for my family.
The other ingredients weren’t hard to find as well, in fact I have them in my ref and cupboard, so it was not a pain really. Steaming time was a bit less than the time i had to cook my rice so it was perfect. I tried making puto alongside my sinaing.
So for those of you who would like to try making moist puto cheese, here is the —
Moist Puto Cheese Recipe
Ingredients for the moist puto cheese:
- 1 cup Rice Flour
- 1 Cup Fresh Milk
- 3 tsp Calumet or any Baking Powder
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- Food coloring of your choice (i used mc cormick liquid – red for my first batch which turned out pink, and yellow for my other batch)
- 1/3 small box of Cheddar Cheese, grated (almost 1 cup when grated)
- 1/4 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- You will also need puto molders
Cooking procedure for cheesy moist puto:
1. Sift all the dry ingredients (rice flour, baking powder and sugar) into a mixing bowl.
2. Mix thoroughly.
3. Add the wet ingredients, and mix until smooth.
4. Decide on the colors. You can split your mixture into two, and get two different colors. Just add two drops of the food coloring on the mixture.
5. Mix two parts of the grated cheese into the mixture and mix well.
6. Bring steamer into a boil.
7. Pour the mixture into your puto molds up to 3/4s of the container (you can use silicone or aluminum or whatever puto mold you have — i used silicone though, and it serves as a liner too upon serving).
7. Arrange the filled molders into the steaming basket, and put in the steamer once the water starts to boil.
8. Steam for about 20 minutes.
9. Add in the remaining grated cheese on top of each puto and steam for about three minutes more until the cheese melts.
10. Serve.
For this recipe, I did not spend more than P50.00 per batch of about 8 pieces. If you do not have the other ingredients at home then you may spend more but you can reuse the remaining ingredients for another batch, or another recipe.
So there you have it, easy and quick moist puto cheese recipe. It may not look pucture perfect but it is moist, soft and flavorful! My kids loved it! This one is also a good baon for when school starts.
Hope you will give this moist puto cheese recipe a try. Perfect for merienda or as terno to your pancit dishes!
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Leaving you with this video on the different types of puto:
http://happypinaymommy.com/2018/05/02/easy-pork-siomai-recipe/
