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Hello fellow Bisaya 🤗 Probably one of the breakfast staples in every visayan household is the Puto Maya or what others call it Sticky Rice. In the early days we can buy a piece of puto for 5 pesos only, its that cheap! They are usually cooked as early as 3am in the wet market and when ready its easily sold out. For hungry goers who are in a hurry, this is one of our grab and go breakfast best paired with muscovado sugar, sikwate (hot chocolate made from tableya) or even ripe yellow mango.

Puto Maya is made up with glutinous rice or malagkit, coconut milk or gata, sugar and salt. Traditionally, what I learned from cooking puto, is we add ginger to add a kick on its taste. Cooking puto maya is pretty easy. You just mix all ingredients together until the color of puto and gata become translucent then its ready to serve. But for my version of the recipe, I transfer it to a steamer when its partially cooked and continue it to cook it in the steamer to give it a much nicer and smooth texture.