Delicious and easy gluten-free recipe for Pao de Queijo (Cheese Bread). Perfect for a quick and tasty snack or appetizer!
Delicious and Easy-to-Make Cheese Bread Recipe
Pão de queijo, or Brazilian cheese bread, has a rich history that dates back to the colonial period in Brazil. Originating in the state of Minas Gerais, this beloved snack evolved from simple cassava bread to the cheesy delight we know today. The unique combination of indigenous cassava flour and Portuguese dairy influences created a culinary icon that gained popularity throughout Brazil, especially in the 19th century.
Today, pão de queijo is enjoyed globally for its delicious taste and gluten-free nature. This cheesy treat is often served with coffee as a beloved snack or breakfast item. Its cultural significance and commercialization have made it a staple in Brazilian households and bakeries, spreading its popularity around the world and becoming a symbol of Brazilian cuisine.
Authentic Brazilian Pão de Queijo: A Gluten-Free Delight!
Hey there welcome to the Mass Cafe YouTube channel where we bring healthy recipes of the most common pastries of Latin America and I’m here to help you if you have diabetes if you’re following a ketogenic diet if you’re trying to lose weight or if you’re just trying to have a healthy lifestyle and have alternative to the pastries you eat so.
Today I’m going to bring you the poundi kesu which is considered as a cheese bread it comes from Brazil um um is very common in any um local place any local Brazilian in place in the United States so any like Barbecue House Steak House you will see those um little cheese Breads and the cheese breads actually comes from the Yuka flower this is what.
The Yuka flower looks like it’s just like almost like regular FL flower but is one of the benefits of it is glutenfree is good for your gut for digestion um he has some of the microbiotics um chemicals also and is a good um option to weight loss there’s also being some doesn’t there’s also been some.
Studies that it does not spike your blood sugar but with that said is also high in carbs is a starch uh is a starch so that for that being if you’re following a ketogenic diet um maybe that this might not be the recipe for you I might do later on one with almond flour that can be more for your type of diet so we starting here we.
Have some as I showed you before the tapioca flour um and we’re going to add some salt maybe like two teaspoons of salt I’ll have all this in the description so you can see it as well and let me mix this up so we mix this up we’re going to boil here this is such a simple recipe I’m.
Going to boil here some uh milk with water and a little shot of oil and I’m just going to put this to oil the oil I use is also um I don’t like try use the sunflower oil or Canola oils as they are um inflammatory oils this is the avocado oil which is an anti-inflammatory um so.
Also be aware of the oils you use so let’s warm that up and I’ll be right back when that thing is okay so once the um milk is boiling we put it here in our tapioca starch mix we’re going to mix it a little bit and we’re going to set it to let it cool down for about five minutes okay so after five minutes.
We want to introduce the egg just put in an egg here of course if you’re going to do more quantities you’re probably going to do two or three eggs but I’m just doing little bit here this might yield me about 15 cheese breads so get it pretty well mixed in.
Here and once this is well mixed up I’m going to put some of the cheese I have about a cup of moella cheese which is maybe close to like 300 gram and here you want to mix it really well and you will get that point that you’re going to have to start using your.
Hands now if there’s any recipes I’m taking on a challenge from my audience if there’s any recipes that you like please put in the comments and I’m going going to try to find a healthy Twist on that recipe a lot of the um pastries we custom not just in Latin America but all over the world is just full of.
Sugar full of carbs full of stuff that’s not good for you or for us except for the taste they taste really good I know I love having pastries with my coffee so um know healthier ways that we can eat and also take care of ourselves um if you have a parent you don’t want.
To have to take care of your parent struggling with diabetes or high cholesterol some other health issue because they take care of their nutrition so let me just mix this thing really well here with the cheese and I’ll show you what this comes out.
To okay so here’s kind of what just one big ball of dough and lastly I also like to mix it with a little bit of um parmes J cheese just to give it the parmesan cheese taste I enjoy so this is just the original way to eat it.
But you can get more creative a lot some people will put ham ham with cheese um include a other type of cheese C very pop in Brazil um almost like a cream cheese type of texture and now it’s going to make him into their balls they about should be.
About this size yeah so I saying they make them with they can make them also just cheese you can put some ham um here’s some SE sweet versions also with some with guava very common in Brazil um dul leche which is a condensed.
Milk but I like the just a cheese one and I think it’s also the healthier with the exception though the ham the ham has a protein which is also something that we all need as we get older we need that extra protein um for bodies especially as we start losing muscle muscle.
Mass okay so here we go I did about 15 and look how they look and we put it in the oven at 350 for anywhere from 25 to 30 minutes you all depend depends on your oven so please check it once you start getting little crispy or Little Burn spots is when you.
Take it out like when it looks toasty and I’ll come back and show you how it looks okay so after about 25 minutes here’s what we got this what they look like perfect perfect go with your coffee.
And if they become cold just warm them up in the oven and they’re good again you can also freeze them for about 3 months so you are okay very good
