Cheese Bread

Pão de Queijo

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    30

    rolls
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Brazilian Kitchen: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes for the Home Cook

By Leticia Moreinos Schwartz

Published 2012

  • About

A soft, chewy bread roll about the size of a golf ball infused with cheesy flavour, pão de queijo is Brazil’s favourite savoury snack and an excellent recipe to add to your repertoire. The manioc starch (see Glossary) is what gives the cheese roll an incredible gooey and chewy texture, so try your best to use both types of manioc starches. I always buy manioc starch in big quantities so that whenever I decide to make pao de queijo, and that is qu