Recipe: Perfect Cheesy malunggay bread

Cheesy malunggay bread. Two things: Pandesal, or rather pan de sal, is the national bread of the Philippines that's toasted golden brown and coated in bread crumbs. Pandesal is often paired with coffee or hot chocolate in the morning for breakfast or as a midday snack. I added finely chopped frozen malunggay leaves to the batter of this easy recipe for muffins.

Another well-loved breakfast or afternoon snack by many Filipinos! Unlike other cheese bread you know, Filipino cheese bread is sweet and milky. Back home, there is this bakery well-known all over the town of San Fernando, Pampanga for their cheese bread, the L. You can cook Cheesy malunggay bread using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cheesy malunggay bread

1. It's 2 cups of bread flour, 1 cup sugar.
2. You need 150 ml of water or milk.
3. You need 1 of egg.
4. You need 1/2 cup of oil or butter.
5. It's 1 of and half tsp yeast and bread improver.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
7. Prepare 1 cup of malunggay leaves.
8. It's of Toppings.
9. It's 1 cup of grated cheese.
10. You need 1/2 cup of milk powder.
11. Prepare 1/2 cup of brown sugar.

The bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Then turn over and remove from the pan and let it finish cooling on a wire rack. Gather edges to seal and form small dough balls, coat with bread crumbs and place on baking sheet or in a well-greased pan or lined with parchment paper. (ugly side down). Studies have shown that malunggay contains more potassium than bananas.

Cheesy malunggay bread step by step

1. Mix all dry ingredients (flour,yeast,sugar, baking powder).
2. Let the yeast be activated in walter or milk for 10mins.
3. Add egg, oil/melted butter and activated yeast to dry ingredients.
4. Combine to form a dough, mix with malunggay leaves.
5. Dust the working surface with flour and knead your dough for 10 minutes, after that put it on a dry container with a cover until proofed (doubled in size)..
6. When it is proofed knead again for 5minutes then let it rest again for 15 minutes.
7. Now it's time to prepare the toppings..
8. Heat the powdered milk and sugar on a sauce pan with 15ml water until the sugar melts, then let it cool..
9. Go back to your dough, knead again for 5minutes. Cut it in even pieces, then shape it into round buns. Place them on your greased baking tray..
10. Preheat the oven 350°F for 10minutes.
11. Pour over the topping sauce on your ready to bake dough, spread it evenly and lastly sprinkle the grated cheese on top. Bake it for 20 minutes at 300°F..
12. Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea😘😘😘.

Add malunggay leaves to your banana loaf mixture right before baking or stir it into petite muffins with some chocolate chips, too. It's also so easy to incorporate malunggay leaves into your dough to add some interest and a whole lot of nutrition into your bread. Pandesal, which means "salt bread", is a type of Filipino bread roll made of flour, yeast, eggs, salt, and sugar. It is soft, airy, chewy and has a slightly crunchy crust outside. Contrary to its name, pandesal bread tastes slightly sweet rather than salty.

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