Puto Pao

My parents are active members of Couples of Christ. It is a serious commitment being involved in this organization. Every weekend (even weekdays), they always have an activity and of course, potlucks are always involved. What's so funny about this is my mom would always volunteer me or my dad to cook something for them. And because of the constant demand for foods that are easy to make, i've come up with one of the most indemand merienda....the Puto Pao.

Puto pao is a combination of puto which is a sweet and fluffy bread-like steamed cake and asado which is the meat filling of siopao a popular dimsum introduced to filipinos by the chinese. I researched and found a lot of different types of puto pao recipes over the internet. It was a bitter sweet experience since I basically failed achieving the perfect consistency and taste that I like. Then came one afternoon, I tried this one recipe but tweaked the recipe and it became a success! Since then, I promised myself to stick to the recipe for the best results. I use the same recipe for the regular puto( the colored ones) and the puto pao.

Enjoy!