Puto Pao
Puto Pao (Steamed Chiffon cupcakes with Chicken BBQ fillings) Puto pao is basically steamed chiffon cupcakes with meat filling resembling the Chinese bun that called “Sio Pao” or “Siaopao” meaning small buns. Ingredients are similar to basic chiffon cake except it only use egg whites and added to variation is it has a filling. For the filling it can be adobo, asado, corned beef, or barbeque, depending on your preference, on this recipe I use chicken barbeque filling. Puto Pao is a local pasty that you can find in the province of Binan, Laguna Philippines. By the way “Puto”is a Filipino term for steamed cakes or kakanins (pastries made of rice or glutinous rice) but actually it is from the Malay word “puttu” means “portioned”. I actually did not know about this local Filipino pastry till my third sister happens to get a house in Binan, Laguna, (I just completed my school then) and she asked me to stay with her. I was doing an errand for her in the “Bayan” or Cit...
