Rice puto is one popular rice snack in the country. Puto are popular Filipino steamed rice cakes. Their hint of sweetness makes them a much-enjoyed midday snack but they are overall subtle in flavor and thus the perfect foil for savory dishes such as dinuguan, pancit or sopas. Puto is among the most popular Filipino native delicacies. On it's own, it's one delicious snack but also eaten with dinuguan or in Iloilo, with a bowl of hot batchoy.
One of the more popular kind is putong puti made from galapong, or rice flour. Its name comes from its pristine color puti, or white. Traditionally, bigas, or uncooked rice, is soaked in water then ground fine in a gilingan, or grinder, into galapong. Filipino Native Food · Kakanin. Putong Bigas is very easy to make.