Dip them in your favorite stew or eat them plain as a filling snack.
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Puto: Filipino Steamed Rice Cakes | Kitchen Confidante
Serious Eats / Rezel Kealoha
Where Americans eat cornbread and rolls Filipinos have puto a steamed savory cake usually made from rice flour. It’s commonly served as an accompaniment to stews especially dinuguan (Filipino pork blood stew) or eaten on its own as a satisfying snack. Spanish speakers might look twice at the name but it has nothing to do with the Spanish insult it sounds like. The name like the dish itself has indigenous roots coming from the Tamil word “puttu” meaning “portioned” referring to how the individual cakes are pinched and portioned from one large dough. Puto along with dishes like bibingka and kare-kare is a living testament to our vestigial ties to India that date back to precolonial times.
Serious Eats / Rezel Kealoha
