Brazil - Pão de Queijo

Pão de Queijo is a cheese bread popular in Brazil. Let's see if it's popular in our house.

Ingredients:

  • 4 cups corn flour
  • 1¼ cups milk
  • ½ cup water
  • 6 tablespoons oil
  • 1½ cups grated parmesan cheese
  • 1 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons salt

 

 Mix the milk, water, oil and salt in a pan. Bring it to the boil.


In a stand mixer combine the corn flour and hot boiling milk mixture. Turn the mixer on and mix until a sticky dough is formed.  Add the eggs one at a time. It takes a while to blend in the eggs but they do eventually.


Next add the cheese until mixed in.


Wet your hands and form the dough into balls. Place each ball on a greaseproofed tray.


 Bake for 15-20 minutes at 204 C.


Turns out Pão de Queijo is very popular in our house. It's soft, fluffy bread with cheese oozing out of it. We all loved it. The cornflour makes these cheese rolls really light. I can see us making this often as a meal accompaniment.

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