Brazilian

Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)

Name: Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 2.5 cups tapioca flour; 1/2 cup milk; 1/3 cup cooking oil; 2 eggs; 1.5 cups hard cheese; 1 tsp salt

Fernanda @feijoadaqueen

Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Eggetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 cups tapioca flour
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup cooking oil
2 eggs
1.5 cups hard cheese
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 375F and line a baking sheet.
Bring the milk, oil, and salt to a boil, then pour it over the tapioca flour and stir until a shaggy dough forms.
Let cool 10 minutes, then knead in the eggs one at a time until smooth.
Work in the grated cheese until evenly distributed through the sticky dough.
Roll into small balls with oiled hands and space them on the baking sheet.
Bake 20 minutes until puffed and lightly golden, and serve warm.

Watch how to cook Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

PÃO DE QUEIJO TRADICIONAL RÁPIDO E FÁCIL | A MELHOR RECEITA DE PÃO DE QUEIJO DELICIOSA E SIMPLES Play the video

Serve it with

A Brazilian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Prato de Frutas (Breakfast Fruit Plate)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread) carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Bife Acebolado (Steak with Onions)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 420 kcal
Protein: 9 g
Carbs: 43 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.