You can add vanilla, pandan or ube flavors to your puto. pandan or vanilla extract (optional). Common Pinoy merienda fares may include sweet or savory light snacks ranging anything from pancit (rice noodles), lumpia (spring rolls), halo-halo (Filipino hodgepodge dessert) and puto, among others
Traditionally is topped with either salted eggs or cheese but Filipinos start to become creative hence making variations like putong ube, strawberry puto, pandanputo and now this Puto Flan
Over the years, home cooks have spinned these rice cakes into many delicious varieties by adding extracts such as pandan and ube flavorings or by topping them with slices of cheese or salted duck eggs
Before I thought it was a totally Filipino recipe but after I moved to Malaysia I saw something similar in the name of Kue putu but instead of purple colour the Malaysian version is green flavoured with pandan leaves
Steamed Rice Cake (Puto). Beside Purple yam flavor, you can use green pandan extract for a swirl. Layered of sticky round yellow and fluff steam rice cake, with purple yam powder flavor
Very similar to other kakanin commonly peddled in the streets like biko, suman, bibingka and puto, palitaw is also lined with banana leaves or simply wrapped in plastic and laid in bamboo baskets to attract potential buyers
Common kakanin includes suman (steamed sweet rice cake wrapped in coconut or banana leaves), bibingka (rice cake cooked in clay pots lined with banana leaves over charcoal fire) biko (sticky rice cake), kalamay (sticky rice cake flavored with purple yam or taro), puto (steamed rice cake) and kutsinta (brown rice cake served with freshly grated coconut)
You don't need an extra side of puto with your dunuguan, the pie crust does the job nicely. You can go for the regular crepes, or be adventurous and go for some Ube and Pandan Flavored Crepes filled with mangoes and drizzled with chocolate and caramel
