Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print RecipeMy first attempt at makingpandesal was a major disaster. The Filipino Bread Rolls were tasty but rivaled a blackhole in density. Because they were so hard, eating them felt like I was eating stones. Since then,I swore never to makepandesalin my entire life again. Up until last week, that is.Pandesalis the quintessential Filipino bread roll. It comes from three Spanish wordspan de salwhich literally translatetobread of salt or salt bread in English. No surprise there because the Philippines was a colony of Spain for 333 years.Filipinopanaderias(bakeries) always boast that their recipe is the best. My apartment back in Manila was a stone’s throw away from a bakery and I could smell the aroma of freshly baked pandesal at 4 or 5am everyday. Pandesal is always the first order of business in any bakery in the Philippines and no self-respecting panadero (that’s baker in Filipino) would dare remove it from the list of goodies to sell at the bakery. By m...
