Yummy Filipino Puffed Rice Ampaw or Ampao
A Filipino puffed rice, is a favorite Cebuano snack. A popular delicacy in Cebu, it’s a bar-shaped rice snack with peanuts. It’s puffy, crunchy, sweet, sticky, and simply delicious. Usually, the dish is made of left-over rice. It is sun-dried, and cooked until puffy. This snack gets more popular and is now made commercially and sold locally or even abroad.
This fun snack is a kid’s favorite, and even adults love and enjoy it. This is a must-try recipe; it is very easy to make. Thank you for visiting us yummy food ph.
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Description
Ampaw or Ampao (Filipino puffed rice), is a favorite Cebuano snack. A popular ampao in Cebu is the ampaw carcar; it's a bar-shaped puffed rice snack with peanuts. It’s puffy, crunchy, sweet, sticky, and simply delicious. Usually, the dish is made of left-over rice, sun-dried, and cooked until puffy. This snack gets more popular and is now made commercially and sold locally or even abroad.
This fun snack is a kid’s favorite, and even adults love and enjoy it. This is a must-try recipe; it is very easy to make.
Ingredients
Instructions
Prepare the cooked rice, or "bahaw," a left-over rice. Separate each grain as you can, then put it under the sunlight for about 4 hours or until it dried out.
In a frying pan, heat the cooking oil. Once hot enough, gently put the sun-dried rice in batches and cook for a few seconds until they get puffy. Immediately remove the puff rice from the hot oil and put it on paper towels. Set aside.
Note: To avoid burning the puffed rice, adjust the heat level accordingly.In a skillet or saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, calamansi juice, and salt. Apply heat and keep stirring over low heat or until it reaches the caramel point. Add the butter and stir until melted, then add the vanilla extract and stir.
Add the puffed rice and roasted peanuts and mix until well combined. Transfer the rice mixture to a greased pan or parchment paper. Shape it into puffy balls. For bar shape, use rolling pin to evenly flatten the mixture to 1 inch thick, then cut into bars.
Serve sweet, crunchy, and enjoy!
Servings 6
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 680kcal
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat 20.1g31%
- Saturated Fat 9.9g50%
- Cholesterol 20mg7%
- Sodium 87mg4%
- Potassium 117mg4%
- Total Carbohydrate 123g41%
- Dietary Fiber 1.3g6%
- Sugars 47.4g
- Protein 6.1g13%
- Calcium 25 mg
- Iron 3 mg
- Vitamin D 200 IU
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.