Cheese Bread

                                                                               Receta en Español

In Brazil this is a typical snack, it is originated  from Minas Gerais. A region where gold and gemstones were found, in despite of that, in the XVIII century there was a little quantity of flour, then cookers of this region decided to use milk,eggs and cheese to make some bread with little flour.
Now they use cassava starch, I used normal flour to do them like at ancient times.

In Brazil, 70% of cheese bread is produced in Mina Gerais.

Ingredients (for 67 little  breads):

-  500 grams grated cheese (half parmesan,half emmental).
-  500 grams cassava flour or starch.
-  250 ml milk if you use starch, 600 ml of milk if you use flour.
-  80 ml oil.
-  3 eggs.
-  Salt.

Method:

1- Grate cheese.

2- Put in a casserole some milk, salt and oil. Heat until it reaches boiling point, then turn off the heat.

3- Add some flour and mix well.

Then add eggs one after one , mix well ,first with the help of a wooden spoon , then, once it is cold, use your hands.
The consistency of the dough reminds of marzipan if you use flour or something sticky if you use starch.

4- Take some dough with your hands , make little balls.
Put the balls on an oven tray protected with some parchment paper. The balls should be like ping-pong balls size.

5- Preheat oven at 180ºC for 10 minutes.
The cook for 30 minutes at the same temperature , until balls get slightly golden.

Here you have the recipe on my Youtube channel:

                              https://youtu.be/4_CikHMipTc

Where to buy the ingredients

cassava flour can be found at many shops where they sell latin american products.
I bought it in Madrid , in a shop at Hermanos Machado 24 , Metro Quintana.

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