Pichi-pichi

DO YOU KNOW IF WHERE I CAN BUY LYE WATER. I WENT TO DIFFERENT ASIAN STORE HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, BUT CAN’T FIND ANY.

THANKS,

Hi Marissa, try the drug store.

Hi guys,:razz:

i love cooking. im in uk right now and i always seek times to cook filipino desserts especially on my days off. ohh what a delicious pichi pichi …hope to hear n have loads of recipes to my email next time i open my email.. thankx

just digging… looking for ideas

lye water can usually be bought at any asian store..i just bought a bottle at a vietnamese store ..so the asian stores that you have there in sacramento should have ‘em..they should be in the filipino aisles, though

hi i live in jersey, minutes away from manhattan, where can i get pandan water and cassava flour?

Cris

Cris, sorry, I have no idea.

hello, ijust want to know how to make a graham cake.pls.help me

hi, is there any substitute for lye water if ever i didn´t find any here in Germany?
By the way, i just wanna say thank u for sharing ur foodblog. you have such a great recipes and all of them are very interesting to cook esp veggie. They are the best i ever cooked… Living away from home, I miss Filipino food so much and you just saved me and now i´m learning to cook! had already tried some and my husband really liked it and even my 2 years old daughter. Hoping to have a copy of your Recipe book when you release it…

wheng, i don’t know of any substitutes, sorry. at any rate, the pichi pichi can be cooked without the lye water except that they won’t be makunat.

You can also use/add pinipig.

wowie, add pinipig to the niyog or to the cassava flour mixture?

there’s a store in malabon that uses cheese instead of grated coconut. perhaps the shelf life is longer..yummy….

Sorry for the late comment. You may use pinipig instead of the cassava flour or you may just add it to the cassava..

Hi!

Is tapioca powder the same as cassava flour?

Thanks!

Rosana, tapioca powder = cassava starch.

hi, i hope you’d still get this comment. i tried your recipe last night and my pichi-pichi was a failure pardon my ignorance, but is cassava flour the same as cassava powder? i used cassave powder i bought from sm. i used 3 cups of that, 3 cups of water and 3 cups of sugar. i steamed it for 45 minutes–when it’s done, i got myself a tikoy! white, too firm, too sweet and sticky tikoy-like dessert that looks and tastes nothing like pichi-pichi! could it be that i used the wrong cassave product. what brand did you use for yours? thanks.

mel, cassva powder is a thickener for sauces, also known as tapioca starch.

hi, connie. i’m making pichi-pichi tonight. i got myself fresh cassava from quezon BUT i made a mistake–i grated it before boiling! you think i could still use it? thanks.

mel, you’re supposed to grate it raw.

then i must have done something wrong because it didn’t stick together. i steamed it for more than 45 minutes because the mixture doesn’t seem to stick together. after two hours i gave up because the grated cassava was still tough.

Mel, check this out. Same principle except that the pichi-pichi is cut and rolled in grated coconut.

Hi, Connie. Thanks for sharing these recipes. I’m so thankful I could find filipino recipes like piche piche online. Anyhow, I have all the ingredients for this recipe. I was wondering… does it matter how much water I add to the bottom of my steamer? My mother lent me her steamer which is a metal one with 4 pots that stack on top of each other. I will also be using her individual mini-muffin cups because my muffin pan will not fit in the steamer. How much water do I put and should the water be simmering or boiling? I’ve never steamed anything in my life- let alone piche piche. LOL Salamat, po!

we love pichi-pichi and i am so glad i found ur recipe! the one from malabon uses cheese instead of niyog. masarap din…

Hi Connie,

I need 1 teaspoon of lye water to my recipe. I don’t fell like using lye water, what I can substitute? what would be the consistent measurement.

thanks
Maria

Hi! Would it make a difference it I use cassava powder? It’s the only thing they have in the supermarket I checked out. Thanks!

thanks poh xa procedure….
hehehe

ill ask mom to try the recipe.

i love pichi-pichi.. my fave would be amber’s! the one with cheese is okay but i still prefer the one w/ niyog.

please send me a complete instraction on how to make a pichi pichi

what lye water can do anyway?

that’s what makes it chewy.

hi connie!!!i always make pichi-pichi for loved ones n friends.some suggestions–want it to be of smooth texture??try putting d mixture in a blender and liquefy it.no lumps.sarap to d bite!!i also add lemon extract to d mixture.just a teaspoon of it.it won’t alter d taste.

btw,i forgot to add that my suggestions are for your readers who use FRESHLY GRATED cassava.

happy cooking,everybody!!!!!

connie,nice to know that sam’s ok na.it’s really hard for us moms kapag our kids get sick.my hubby,a physician,advised my 2nd daughter to take lots of that wonderfully potent calamansi juice when we suspected her of having dengue coz her symptoms presented that of dengue.thank God d blood tests yielded negative results.

where can we buy lye water

Great recipe especially when refrigerated and cold when eaten. My daughter, Perlas Kintanar Lorenzo, M.D., DPBO used to buy them. Then I learned how to make it and presto! We saved by just making them in our kitchen….

I love your website. Your cooking steps and recipes are just wonderful and soooo good! I have added a link of your website on mine. I always for new recipes that you publish. I’m a fan!

I have to make kutsinta for a school project and I need to use Lye water. Does anyone know of any stores here in Indianapolis Indiana that would have it? I actually live in the one horse town of Lebanon but we would have that here. Let me know

Hi connie! I tried making pichi pichi and for some reason it was too watery. I followed the same measurements that you put in the same amount if water to the same amount of cassava. My mother in law insited I add some flour and I did. It turned out to be a Pichinta (Half pichi and half kutsinta) could it be that because I used Frozen Grated Cassava that made it watery? If so what would the measurements be is using Frozen Grated Cassava and how much lye water should be used per pack of Frozen Cassava? Would really appreciate it if you could get back to me… Many Thanks!!!

Joanna, I’ve never used frozen cassava so I don’t know how it’s handled. I never heard of anyone adding flour to pichi-pichi.

Hi Connie! Can you share where we can buy lye water and cassava flour in Manila? Thanks.

lye water = Antipolo market. Cassava flour is available in most supermarkets.