Best Pandesal You can make with Recipe plus step by step video (2024)

Best Pandesal Recipe plus step by step video.This is the Best Pandesal Recipe you can use plus a step-by-step video. This post is the most commented post in the blog in which raving readers who tried it have been using this recipe since.

for more bread recipes: Try this Ube Pandesal with Cheese

WHAT IS PANDESAL

Pandesal is a Filipino bread coated with crust. It is baked for a shorter period of time, to get a crusty top and soft and fluffy inside. It is a traditional Filipino bread usually served in the morning for breakfast and around 3 PM in the afternoon as a mid-day snack.

When you are vacationing in the Philippines, the chances of you hearing a manong (older man), on his bike with a Pandesal basket on the back is 99.9 percent. This is just the way it is, a Filipino tradition in which most people eat Pandesal as breakfast. OR bakeries are selling Pandesal in the early dawn and usually, the Pandesal supply is gone around 8 in the morning, and then, it is baked again for an afternoon snack at 3 PM.

This bread is not just “bread” per se. It is one part of my Filipino culture which was deeply ingrained in me. But when I came here to the US, I had stopped eating just because it is not available and because I was just simply lazy to make my own. When I went home this year and my children tasted Pandesal for the first time and liked it, I cannot help but be embarrassed by myself and guilty at the same time.

How crazy was I to let my children be ignorant about this Filipino tradition? But it is not too late. I can make it and remind them of our roots. I made sure this recipe will taste similar to what they tasted in the Philippines.

I’ve tried out two recipes but they did not work out, so from those trial and error, I was able to come up with thisthis recipe that worked.

The fluffiness, the sweetness of this Pandesal is spot on. I am sharing it with you, guys! I believe that Filipino children raised in any part of the world should experience this Pandesal tradition….just like what I am doing now. So hop into the bandwagon and let’s get baking. CHECK OUT THESE CINNAMON ROLLS TOO: MY FIRST SUCCESSFUL CINNAMON ROLLS WITH WALNUTS, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ENJOY CORON PALAWAN, PHILIPPINES.

How to Make your Pandesal?

There is no secret in making Pandesal. The ingredients are simple. It has to be fermented with yeast to achieve its fluffy bread dough and to make it sweet, there is a small amount of sugar added to the dough. It is then baked for 20 t0 25 minutes, sometimes even 15 to 20 minutes depending on your oven.

Some websites used a bread machine to make their Pandesal just like this site right here, but I cannot guarantee if soft or fluffy, but you can try it just for kicks.

TRICKS TO MAKE AIRY PANDESAL:

1. By the smell. You don’t want to bake it for a long time. When you smell the bread, that is when you get prepared and check it. Sometimes it is ready to pull out from the oven. Usually about 20-25 minutes. So whiff that smell.
2. After checking the bread when you can smell it, tap it. When it is hollow, then it is ready.
3. The dough. Fold the dough. Watch the video on how I did it. I tried making Pandesal so many times and failed because I did not fold the dough, it came our hard as a rock. Also, do not over knead.

If you follow this Pandesal recipe, you will be able to make a soft and fluffy Filipino, traditional that actually tastes similar to the one we have in the Philippines.

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