Pandesal

Traditional Filipino bread rolls.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp butter (1/4 stick)

• 1 egg

• 1/3 cup white sugar

• 1 cup lukewarm water

• 1 tsp instant yeast

• 3 cups bread flour

• 1/2 tsp salt

• Bread crumbs (optional, but traditional)

Steps

Mix & knead ingredients

1. Cut butter into thin slices and line in the bottom of a mixing bowl

2. Add the egg to the bowl. Beat and smash the egg into the butter slices

3. Mix in sugar completely

4. Mix in lukewarm water

5. Stir in yeast, then flour, then salt

6. Knead the dough by hand for about a minute

7. Form into a ball

8. Leave in the bowl and cover with plastic wrap

1st rise

9. Place the bowl on the counter at room temperature (70° F or above), or in oven with the oven light on, until doubled in size (usually about an hour to an hour and a half) 

10. Move the covered bowl to the refrigerator and leave in from 4 to 24 hours

Shaping & 2nd rise

11. Remove dough from refrigerator, shape into a log

12. Cut the log into thirds, then each piece into quarters (you should have 12 pieces; math)

13. Roll the pieces into balls

14. [Optional] Roll the balls in a bowl of bread crumbs to lightly coat

15. Place the balls on a parchment lined baking sheet about a half inch apart and cover with a cloth towel

16. Leave the baking sheet on the counter at room temperature (70° F or above), or in oven with the oven light on, for about 3 hours

Bake

17. Preheat oven to 350° F

18. Remove the towel (duh)

19. [Optional] Just before placing into the oven, using water in a spray bottle, lightly mist the dough and the inside of the oven

20. Bake for about 17 minutes, or until golden brown 

Update: 1/1/2024