Pandesal Recipe

      I would like to say thank you to a friend of mine who shared with me a site that has this Pandesal recipe, the Panlasang Pinoy website. I was happy with the result for my first time attempt but more than happy with my second try.

So here's the recipe from Panlasang Pinoy:

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups bread flour

½ cup white sugar

5 tbsp butter, melted

1 tsp baking powder

1¼ cup fresh milk, warm

1 pouch rapid rise yeast

1 tsp salt

1 cup bread crumbs

1 piece raw egg

1 tbsp cooking oil

Cooking procedure:

1. Combine the yeast, sugar, and warm milk and stir until the yeast and sugar are fully disolved

2. In the mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients starting with the flour then the sugar, salt, and baking powder . Mix well by stirring

3. Add the egg, butter, cooking oil, and yeast-sugar-milk mixture in the mixing bowl with the dry ingredients then mix again until a dough is formed. Use your clean hands to effectively mix the ingredients.

4. In a flat surface, knead the dough until the texture becomes fine.

5.  Mold the dough until shape becomes round then put back in the mixing bowl. Cover the mixing bowl with damp cloth and let the dough rise for at least 1 hour

6. Put the dough back to the flat surface and divide into 4 equal parts using a dough slicer

7. Roll each part until it forms a cylindrical shape

8. Slice the cylindrical dough diagonally (These slices will be the individual pieces of the pandesal)

9. Roll the sliced dough over the breadcrumbs and place in a baking tray with wax paper (makes sure to provide gaps between doughs as this will rise later on)

10. Leave the sliced dough with breadcrumbs in the tray for another 10 to 15 minutes to rise

11. Pre heat the oven at 375 degrees fahrenheit for 10 minutes

12. Put the tray with dough in the oven and bake for 15 minutes

13. Turn off the oven and remove the freshly baked pandesal.

14. Serve hot. Share and enjoy!

This is what I did differently in my second attempt to which I personally like the result better:

*  2 pouches of rapid rise yeast

*  I used 1/2 cup powder milk and mix it with 1 1/4 cups warm water (I was out with regular milk)

*  In the first cooking procedure it did not say how much sugar you have to put. I used only 1/4 cup and set aside the other 1/4 cup for the second cooking procedure.

    The Panlasang Pinoy website has also a video on how they cook this Pandesal. Just visit their site if you want to watch this video. Happy baking!