TRADITIONAL

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
PANDESAL Pandesal
Recipe
Start your day with a hot
Pandesal

PANDESAL
This bread is one of the most
popular local bread in the
Philippines. It is known for its
creamy, slightly sweet, crusty
outside but soft on the inside
texture. It is best paired with a cup
of hot coffee.
 PROCEDURES:
• Prepare the ingredients and materials needed, and make
sure to clean your hands while preparing.
• Stir together the yeast, sugar, and warm milk, once the
yeast and sugar have dissolved.
• Get your mixing bowl and start by combining the dry
ingredients first; flour, sugar and powder milk.
• Add the margarine, water, yeast mixture and oil in the
mixing bowl with the dry ingredients, until the dough has
formed.
• Ingredients can be easily combined by kneading, it
Ingredients: distributes yeast evenly which results the carbon dioxide
bubbles caused by fermentation evenly throughout the
• 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour dough, creating a consistent crumb. Knead until its texture
• 1/2 cup brown or white sugar becomes fine.
• 1 1/2 cup water • On a flat surface, divide the dough into 4 equal parts using
• 1/2 cup powdermilk a dough slicer.
• 2 tbsp. oil • Roll each part until it forms a cylindrical shape which will
• 2 tsp. yeast be again divided into pieces, these slices will be the
• Breadcrumbs individual pieces of the pandesal.
• 1 tsp. salt • Roll the sliced dough into the breadcrumbs, and put it in a
foil tray.
Equipment: • Cover the foil tray with a cling wrap and wait until the
dough with breadcrumbs rises up
• Mixing Bowl • Preheat the microwave oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit for
• Foil tray 10 minutes.
• Cling wrap • After that, put the foil tray into the microwave oven for at
• Microwave Oven least 15 minutes.
• Turn off the oven, and move the freshly baked pandesal
out of the oven.
• Serve the hot baked pandesal.

In a bread dough, oxygen supply is limited

and water given off, and yeasts feed on
sugars and starches which turns this food into
energy and carbon dioxide are produced.
This is the process called Alcohol
Fermentation.