Puto Pao

I’ve been thinking of this as one of the varieties of Puto. I searched the net and found pork as the main ingredient but since I do not have pork here, I decided to twist a bit – again :). On break, I decided to experiment once more and tried this beef version of Puto Pao.

My Beef Puto Pao version

Ingredients:

Filling
- garlic
- 300gms ground beef
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 18 pcs hard boiled quail eggs
- ½ cup cornstarch diluted in ¼ cup water
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 cup water
- Salt to taste

Batter
- 5 cups all purpose flour
- 2 ½ cups sugar
- 5 tsp baking powder
- 5 cups fresh milk
- 1 cup melted butter
- Cheese

Procedure:

Cook the Filling:
- boil quail eggs for 15 minutes, set aside
- on a pan, stir fry garlic for 2mins
- add pineapple juice, cook for 3mins
- add sugar and water, simmer for 15mins
- add the cornstarch diluted in water
- add in boiled egg
- remove from heat and set aside

Prepare the Batter:
- combine all purpose flour, sugar, and baking powder in a mixing bowl
- add fresh milk and the melted butter
- use a hand mixer to mix everything
- set aside

Cooking:
- get puto moulds and fill with the batter to about ¼ full
- put half of quail egg and a teaspoon of the filling
- fill with batter the puto mould until it covers the filling
- do for the rest of the puto moulds
- steam for 20 minutes
- top with cheese
- serve and enjoy!