Description
Piyaya or Piaya is a type of unleavened toasted flatbread filled with muscovado and is a popular delicacy in Negros Occidental more specifically Bacolod City
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup flour, plus extra for dusting
- 12 tsp muscovado sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 tbsp cold butter, cubed
- 5 tbsp ice water
Instructions
- In a food processor combine flour and cold butter, process until it resembles coarse crumbs.
- Pour in ice water then continue until it clumps into one dough. Remove the dough from the food processor then place in a flour dusted work surface, knead gently then divide into six pieced.
- Flatten each piece with your finger, add 2 tsp of muscovado sugar in the middle, fold edges like a dumpling then roll into a flat circle roughly 4 inched in diameter. Do it with the remaining dough then cook in a pan with a bit of oil until golden brown on both sides.
- Serve as a whole or you can slice them into sections.
Notes
Cook Time is based on a single piyaya