Pão de Queijo
Brazil's cheese bread from Minas Gerais — little puffs of tapioca starch scalded with hot milk and oil, beaten with eggs and cheese and baked until crisp outside and chewy and stretchy inside. Naturally gluten-free.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 250 g tapioca starch
- 125 ml whole milk
- 60 ml water
- 60 ml sunflower oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 80 g parmesan, finely grated
- 70 g low-moisture mozzarella, grated
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 1391 kcal · P 66.8g · C 29.4g · F 111.4g
Estimated from 8 of 8 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- 2Bring the milk, water, oil and salt to the boil in a saucepan.
- 3Pour it at once over the tapioca starch in a bowl and stir hard with a wooden spoon into a sticky, lumpy dough. Scalding the starch is what makes the bread chewy.
- 4Leave for 10–15 minutes until warm rather than hot, so the eggs don't scramble.
- 5Beat in the eggs one at a time — the dough looks broken at first, then comes back smooth and sticky — and then both cheeses.
- 6With oiled hands or two spoons, shape walnut-sized balls of about 25 g and set them 4 cm apart on the tray.
- 7Bake for 20–25 minutes, until puffed and golden at the tips. Don't open the oven in the first 15 minutes or they collapse.
- 8Serve warm.
Questions and answers
How long does Pão de Queijo take to make?
About 50 minutes: 25 min prep and 25 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Pão de Queijo?
8 ingredients: tapioca starch, whole milk, water, sunflower oil, salt, eggs, parmesan, low-moisture mozzarella.
How many servings does this Pão de Queijo recipe make?
6 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Pão de Queijo?
About 232 kcal, with 11.1 g protein, 4.9 g carbohydrate and 18.6 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Pão de Queijo recipe suit?
It is vegetarian and gluten-free.
What cuisine is Pão de Queijo?
Pão de Queijo comes from Brazilian cuisine.
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