FILIPINO RICE CAKES

FILIPINO RICE CAKES

*gluten free, vegan, no oven, quick, soft and fluffy*

These rice cakes are called Puto and are very popular everyday breakfast cakes in Asia. They take 5 minutes to mix the batter and 10 minutes to steam them.

2/3 cup (100 g) rice flour (non glutinous)

3,5 (100 ml) oz coconut milk

2 tbsp oil

2 tbsp sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)

Heat a pot with water for steaming.

Mix flour, milk, sugar and baking powder. Add oil. If you want yellow puto, add 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, if you want brown puto, add 1,5 tbsp cocoa powder and 1 more tbsp of sugar. If you use brown sugar, the cakes will be slightly "tanned". You can divide the batter and make some white, some yellow cakes. If you use coconut oil, they will smell like coconut even more.

Be very careful with hot steam. Place a steaming rack in a pot with boiling water, put cupcakes mold on the rack, pour the batter into each mold a little lower than the brim. Cover with lid and steam for 10 minutes. If the water boils intensively in the pot, the cakes will rise and open up like a flower, as in the first picture. If the water boils not intensively, they will rise a little like in the last picture.

The steam may condense under the lid and drop down. If you don't like it, wrap the lid in a cotton kitchen towel.