Finally… Piaya!!!
September 12, 2006Martin and I have been searching the recipe of piaya for a long time now. It's actually how I stumbled into food blogging, but unfortunately our search was futile. Just few days ago I tried again to search, hoping this time I will be lucky. And I lucky I was! I found a food blog linking to an article of Inquirer which featured piaya.
My husband is such a piaya fanatic. He can eat plenty of packs if you just let him. But being away from Philippines most of the time limits him to indulge in his favorite delicacy. That's why he really wants piaya's recipe so he can bake it himself whenever he craves for it. Also my sister-in-law is crazy over piaya. She confessed she can finish one or more pack all by herself. I guess they're really meant to have Ilonggos as their partners in life.
I happily told Martin about the good news and he was of course, very happy! I was excited to try the recipe so I didn't waste any time, and tackled the task as soon as I had the chance to do it.
I was in for a big disappointment though, because when I mixed the flour and the shortening (per instruction though, I used butter instead), it wouldn't form into a dough! It just crumbles into powder just like polvoron. I thought of adding water, but I don't want to risk this time. I was already in the verge of losing hope, then an idea struck at me to try searching again if there were still other recipes I can compare. I tried using the keyword "piaya" and no other recipe came out . So I tried "piyaya" and Ferna's recipe was one of the results.
What my instinct told me about adding water was right afterall! When I added the water, the mixture can be formed into a dough then. I made a few adjustments in the recipe, so this is truly mine! hmmmp! hehehe
Piaya is Bacolod City's famous delicacy.
Ingredients:
250 grams flour
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup water
250 grams muscovado sugar
seasame seeds
Procedure:
Mix flour, butter and water. Form into a dough. Divide into 20 grams, roll the dough until flat. Put 10 grams of muscovado sugar in the middle and seal. Form into a ball, place sesame seeds on top and press again with rolling pin until it becomes very flat. Cook in non-stick flat pan in a very low heat until it becomes light brown. The sugar might ooze out from the dough!
Cy said that she isn't really fond of eating piaya, but my piaya is already her new favorite! She keeps saying its yummy, tasty… ummmm another bite, then another…. =) I had to hide some for taking pictures because it was disappearing fast!
Next time I'll try mixing honey to the sugar coz I noticed that the sugar turns dry when it's not hot anymore. Maybe that's why they say that piaya is best eaten when hot.
Previous Comments
sa wakas! pero di ba pwede nagtanong na lang sa piaya makers dyan sa bacolod? heheh
Posted by bea at September 14, 2006, 5:55 pmleen: luto ka na lang ah, labor of love 
or you want mabakal na lang kag isend? la na ko time magluto hehe. limited man lang ang filling sa size sa dough kay gaawas.
bea: hmm hindi ako nagtanong. secret yata eh!
Posted by blueapron at September 18, 2006, 11:23 amdo you have a video on how to make piyaya with instruction.for commercial piyaya pra may ginansiya man ko sa akon negosyo.
Posted by maping at November 7, 2006, 1:59 pmdo you have a video how to make piyaya? or may seminar on how to make it kay willing ko mag atend.just send me a text 09174355524.ari man lang ko sa bacolod city,negros occidental.
Posted by maping at November 7, 2006, 2:02 pmdaisy gud am.i rcvd ur text last nyt.thank you so much.anu ang mga gamit kon mag ubra piyaya.rolling pin..what pa gid needed.pacenxa gid kay dko kabalo sang iban pa gid nga gamit.wala ka gahatag seminar sa pastries?09174355524.gusto ko gid tani maglantaw kon anu ang pag ubra sng piyaya.kag ang mixing.ty gid
Posted by maping at November 8, 2006, 9:02 amdais, kon may ara kapa gid gli recipe sang pancake.for commercial man a.just send to my email ping_dbti@yahoo.com.ang ingredients kag procedure.salamat gid
Posted by maping at November 8, 2006, 9:40 amsa BATA Bacolod city,im single madam.29 yrs old.thanks for the help.wait ko ang pancake recipe ha.
Posted by maping at November 8, 2006, 5:07 pmdi ko pa natry yung recipe mo ms. daisy coz wala akong oven but if ever i have the chance to do so, ill definitely use your recipe. *salivates*
thanks for dropping by my site and for sharing your recipe of the scrumptious Piaya. God bless!
Posted by kel at March 11, 2008, 3:01 ami also looove piyaya, as any true-blue ilonggo should 
. pero walang mabenta dito sa states (sa east coast anyway). my first attempt to search for a recipe resulted in a very complicated recipe that called for pork lard in every piece! not cool. So i’m very excited to try this recipe! (and maybe even use some butter substitue to keep it low fat/cholesterol)
by the way…has anyone noticed that our piyaya is just like an indian food called paratha (http://www.gelskitchen.com/view/recipes/rec/10241/-/). They put all sorts of fillings in theirs - both sweet (this one has mashed beans and coconut..i guess it would be like a monggo piyaya) and savory (i’ve also found a recipe for putting mashed herb potatoes).
I think i’ll experiment first with both dark brown sugar and monggo maybe with coconut. then i’ll get really crazy and try it with kamote (since i have no idea where to buy ube) and maybe some saba! ahh the possibilities are endless…
Posted by cecilia at October 16, 2008, 4:46 amthank you for this very easy recipe, i made these and it was absolutely great.
nice recipe, certainly a great leap from my own attempt.. but there’s something wrong with the filling concept though…the piaya filling is supposed to maintain it’s fudgy/gooey texture even after it cools down…anyone here recently visited bacolod? or is from bacolod? to those guys, have you ever tried marzel’s piaya being sold outside lopue’s east? that’s my favorite so far…
Posted by viperiusx at February 15, 2009, 9:04 pmI tried to do the recipe but unfortunately it’s not as I know the outcome coz thre’s something wrong volume of water to be added coz it cant form into dough.
Posted by lito at February 22, 2009, 6:42 pmthe water proportion is not right.It became grainy and can’t form into a dough.I kept adding water so as to form something.
Posted by dee at September 7, 2009, 5:12 am
send us a jumbo box of piaya here in thailand so we can share it to our friends as well…padala ni Nong Andy…yikes! sige, matuon na lang ko gani luto sini…i like it when it has lots of fillings inside..:)
Posted by aileen at September 13, 2006, 10:19 am