Putong Bigas with Salted Egg and Cheese Recipe

Putong Bigas with Salted Egg and Cheese Recipe by Chef Luca De Santis, step by step with the cooking video. Soft, fluffy Filipino steamed rice cakes topped

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Filipino

Putong Bigas with Salted Egg and Cheese

🍽 Serves 12⏱ Prep 20 min🔥 Cook 20 min⏳ Rest 30 min🌍 Filipino

Soft, fluffy Filipino steamed rice cakes topped with cheese and salted egg.

📍 Philippines

The story of the dish

Puto is one of the oldest Filipino kakanin, rice cakes once made from fermented ground rice and served with dinuguan or at merienda and fiestas.

The name: From the Malay putu, a steamed rice cake.

Ingredients

Ingredient	EUg · ml	UScups · spoons
rice flour	≈ 250 g	≈ 2 cups
white sugar	≈ 150 g	≈ ¾ cup
baking powder	≈ 12 g	≈ 1 tbsp
coconut milk	≈ 240 ml	≈ 1 cup
water	≈ 120 ml	≈ ½ cup
egg	≈ 50 g	≈ 1 egg
butter melted	≈ 45 g	≈ 3 tbsp
salt	≈ 1 g	≈ ¼ tsp
cheddar cheese thin strips	≈ 60 g	≈ ½ cup
salted egg sliced	≈ 60 g	≈ 1 salted egg

≈ amount suggested from similar recipes

Tools & equipment

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Also used: steamer · puto moulds · whisk

Method

1. Whisk the rice flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
2. Add coconut milk, water, egg and melted butter and whisk until smooth.
3. Rest the batter 30 minutes.
4. Brush puto moulds with butter and fill them three-quarters full.
5. Steam over boiling water for 10 minutes.
6. Top with cheese and a slice of salted egg and steam 3 more minutes.
7. Cool slightly before unmoulding.

👨‍🍳 Chef’s tips

• Wrap the steamer lid in a towel so water does not drip on the cakes.

Nutrition per portion estimate · 1 of 12

190kcal

4 gprotein

28 gcarbs

7 gfat

Allergens

GlutenEggsMilk

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▶ Watch me cook it: youtu.be/S0t0hQKCpiI

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