Cheesy dough balls

Name: Cheesy dough balls (Pão de queijo)
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 500 g/1¼ lb/5 cups sour cassava starch (polvilho azedo); 20 ml/4 tsp salt; 450 ml/¾ pint/2 cups milk; 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup vegetable oil; 225 g/8 oz/1 cup feta cheese, finely crumbled; 100 g/4 oz/1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated; 4 eggs; cream cheese or butter, to serve; cream cheese or butter, to serve

Pão de queijo

Preparation info

Makes about
24
balls

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Brazil

By Fernando Farah

Published 2011

About

These little golden dough balls are another great example of the versatility of cassava as a cooking ingredient. Pão de queijo can be found in the majority of bakeries, snack bars, grill houses and restaurants in Brazil.

Ingredients

500 g/1¼ lb/5 cups sour cassava starch (polvilho azedo)
20

Americas
Brazil
Snack
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

1 Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Carefully put the sour starch into a bowl; it is very fine and easily blows away. Add the salt.

2 Heat the milk and oil in a pan until it reaches boiling point. Just as the boiling liquid starts to rise, remove from the heat and pour it