Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, puto maya. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Puto Maya is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Puto Maya is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Puto maya, a type of rice cake which originated from Cebu, is made of glutinous rice, fresh ginger and sweetened milk. The rice is first soaked in water for an hour to hasten cook time, steamed with the rest of the concoction until tender and sticky, and then wrapped in banana leaves or molded using individual-sized bowls to serve.. Puto is a classic Filipino rice cake that is made with steaming.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook puto maya using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Puto Maya:
- Prepare 2 cups Glutinous Rice
- Get 2 cups Coconut milk
- Prepare 3/4 cups White Sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp Salt
- Prepare Thumbsize ginger
- Make ready leaves Banana
The Tagalog phrase gaya-gaya puto maya is used to mock someone who is trying to copy someone else (gaya means "to imitate"). The inclusion of the phrase putomaya is not only a rhyme; it could also be. Puto Maya is a classic Filipino rice cake enjoyed for snacks or dessert, with origins from Cebu, a Visayan province. The easy recipe consists of glutinous rice cooked in coconut cream, then steamed.
Instructions to make Puto Maya:
- Soak glutinous rice in water for 8 hours or overnight
- Rinse and strain water from rice
- Add the coconut milk, sugar, salt and minced ginger cut into thin pieces
- Continue to stir on medium low heat until most liquid is absorbed
- Steam the banana leaves. This is to avoid tearing.
- Place the banana leaf like a plate in the steamer then pour the rice.
- Steam for 30 mins.
- Fold the sheets of banana leaves into a cone
- Place the cooked rice into the cones
- Serve with mangoes and hot chocolate
The round-shaped rice cakes are sprinkled with fresh coconut meat slivers and served with fresh, ripe mangoes in season and cups of piping-hot cocoa, called Sikwate in Cebu. There was puto maya every single day. There were different food every morning but Puto Maya was always present. It was like a breakfast staple. Growing up, I have started skipping breakfast (bad, I know) but there are days when I miss my mornings at my great grandma's house that I decided to learn how to cook Puto Maya.
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