Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de queijo) 🇧🇷. Pão de queijo, which means "cheese bread" in Portuguese, is a delightful snack from Brazil made with tapioca flour (meaning it's gluten-free) and cheese. Our recipe calls for both Parmesan. Brazilian cheese bread is very easy to make, and features a chewy, cheesy, bready center, encased in a beautiful, thin, pastry crust.

As a matter of fact, I do! My friend Bill gave me this recipe years ago, a favorite from his Brazilian wife Silvia. I've made it several times, each time with different cheeses. You can cook Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de queijo) 🇧🇷 using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de queijo) 🇧🇷

It's 500 g of Tapioca starch (the fine and light kind).
Prepare 5 g of salt.
You need 30 g of unsalted butter.
It's 60 ml of vegetable oil.
It's 250 ml of full fat milk.
Prepare 2 of large eggs.
You need 150 g of grated medium cheddar.
Prepare 150 g of parmesan cheese or similar.

Brazil is famous for its pão de queijo--cheese rolls with soft chewy centers. These traditional snacks and breakfast treats come from the state of Minas Gerias in southeastern Brazil. In a food processor, combine the tapioca flour, Asiago, milk, vegetable oil, salt, garlic and eggs. Brazilian Cheese Rolls (Pão de Queijo) at Home!

Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de queijo) 🇧🇷 instructions

In a saucepan, bring the milk, oil and butter to boiling point. Take off from the heat and set aside..
In a large bowl, mix the tapioca starch and the salt. Pour the milk bit by bit, mixing with a wooden spoon..
Add the eggs and knead with your hands until it's incorporated. The dough should not be hot, only warm to the touch..
Add the cheese and keep kneading until the dough is soft and not sticky..
Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees..
Make little balls, around 30/34 grams each..
Place in a tray, around 1 cm apart for them to expand while cooking..
Leave them to cook for around 20 minutes or until they are light brown..
If you want, after making the balls, you can freeze them. They will cook straight away from the freezer. To freeze: Place them on a tray, apart, so they don't stick together, it is hard to separate them once they are frozen. Cover with cling film and leave to freeze for at least 12 hrs. Once they are frozen, you can transfer them to a container, they won't stick anymore at this point. The cheese bread lasts up to 3 months in a sealed container, in the freezer..

Elise of Simply Recipes posted her Pão de Queijo recipe, I was so excited to finally make my own Brazilian Cheese Bread but I was pregnant then and followed a very strict diet that precluded me from eating cheese. Anyway, time flies and now that Baby G is here, I am sort of on a cheese binge these days. Pão de queijo (brazilian cheese bread) is a typical product of Minas Gerais state and I'm so glad so many people in the world now can taste it as the original one. What kind of oil do you use? Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de Queijo) From the Episode A Taste of Brazil.