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Cheese Puffs (Pão de Queijo)

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Snack, Bread, Baked

Tags: appetizer, baked, brazilian, medium difficulty, recipes for bread, recipes using cassava flour, recipes using cheddar, recipes using egg, recipes using parmesan, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACheese_Puffs_%28P%C3%A3o_de_Queijo%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACheese%20Puffs%20%28P%C3%A3o%20de%20Queijo%29&oldid=4618203

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

⅔ cup (160 ml) milk
⅓ cup (80 ml) neutral oil (e.g. vegetable oil)
2 cups (450 g) fine cassava flour or tapioca flour
6 ounces (170 g) grated hard cheese (a mix of cheddar and parmesan is good)
2 eggs
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste

Directions

Mix the milk and oil together in a saucepan, and boil until a white foam appears.
Gradually add flour to this hot mixture; mix well to form a firm dough with no lumps.
Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
Mix the eggs, cheese, salt, and pepper into the dough. The dough will become sticky and wet. If the dough is too wet, add more flour and cheese in order to make firmer balls (instead of cookies).
Grease your hands, and form small balls 1–2 inches in diameter.
Place the balls on a greased baking tray. Bake for 15–20 minutes, until the top begins to brown.
Cool slightly.

Notes

Ensure you use a fine flour, and not the coarser grain type of flour used to make farofa. This recipe should produce small cheesy bread rolls, so a finer flour consistency is required.

An egg substitute like Egg Beaters is fine.