Pão de Queijo (Cheese Buns): SUCCESS!

I LOVE CHEESE!

I'm having a bit of a cheesy day today. Let's face it who doesn't like that cheesy good-morning text :) Or that cheesy good-morning-kiss? :) Orrr that cheesy good-morning-mmm ;)

Well I got none of the above this morning and went in with a cheesy chicken toasty with a cuppa tea! Can't go wrong with cheese; and you definitely can't go wrong with a tea! I'm sounding a whole lotta British! 

This pão de queijo recipe is from a youtuber called Eating With Dog. I'll post the recipe video link [here]. After my kinda fail with the Korean Tapioca Bread recipe I tried out the other day, I found a very similar looking bread online. Pão de queijo is a Brazilian cheese bread that is made out of tapioca flour rather than the normal plain flour. Rather than having black sesame seeds in the bread like Korean tapioca bread, pão de queijo uses CHEESE. I've never tried pão de queijo before, but if its like Korean tapioca bread, I knew I would love it!

Of course I had a lil snack on the side whilst making this recipe- A cheesy snack no doubt!

Ingredients(Makes 12 balls)

100g Tapioca Starch

1/2 Beaten Egg 

30g Grated Parmesan Cheese

50ml Milk

50ml Water

1 and 1/2 Tbsp of Olive Oil

Directions

1. Heat up milk (I used whole milk) with water and oil and heat till on stove until it has almost boiled. 

2. Pour the heated mixture to a bowl of tapioca flour. (Of note: tapioca flour is the same thing as tapioca starch)

3. Quickly mix the mixture to combine. (I used a plastic spatula to do this)

4. Once it is cool enough, knead with hands. 

5. Pour in egg and knead. 

6. Pour in cheese and knead. 

7. Prepare baking tray by lining with baking paper and preheating the oven to 170 degrees Celsius.

8. Lightly grease hands with oil and split the mixture into balls. This mixture makes 12 balls. 

9. Put in oven for 20 minutes. 

10. Say Cheese! :D 

 Milk, water and oil heating on the pan.

  The grated parmesan cheese I bought from the store, conveniently finely grated for me and my lazy self.  

After adding the egg in the mixture, the mixture became very slimy indeed! I wasn't sure how much egg to put in this recipe actually as in the video it looked like she was adding one egg in, but in the ingredients she writes 1/2 egg. In the end I did use half an egg and it worked well for me!

 After adding in the cheese and kneading. 

  After 20 minutes I checked out the balls and I felt like they still needed baking so I left them in for a further 5 minutes. After a total of 25 minutes, say cheese! My balls were ready for the photo shoot. 

 You know how much I like them close up shots. 

I'm going to treat myself today as it's the beautiful day of FRIDAY. 

A series of up close and personal shots. Oh yeah. 

  DIVINE! Crusty on the outside and chewy on the inside. This is exactly how I wanted my last Korean tapioca bread to look like. Cheese is divine and tapioca is divine. 

 Celestial. Oh yeah. 

I loved this recipe, it was so simple to make, it only took less than 15 minutes to prepare and the only ingredients you need to get for this really is tapioca flour and cheese. All the rest, water, milk, eggs and oil I already had in the kitchen! 

For next time I may add more cheese or even a combination of cheeses. I may even go back to trying to make Korean tapioca bread as an adaptation of this recipe!