Mochi Cheese Puffs or Pćo de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)

[BeezeeBee]

These Pćo de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread) are super delicious, irresistible savoury snacks. The whole family loves the mixture of crunchy crust with chewy insides. Very easy to whizz up.



1 egg
60 g olive oil
160 g milk
170 g tapioca flour
50 g grated mozzarella / tasty cheese
50 g grated parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp salt

1. Put all ingredients in TM. Speed 5, 5 secs. Scrape sides. Repeat.
2. Fill greased muffin tin 3/4 way.
3. Bake for 20 min in a preheated 200C oven, until puffy and golden brown.

If using Airfryer, preheat 160° 5 mins. 170° 7 mins. Turn the puffs upside down, and place bottoms up (yup! 😆) within the silicone moulds. Add 5 mins.

This will give you an even golden colour 😃

Tips:
I've used silicone cupcake moulds in the airfryer. I bake in 2 batches, 9 puffs per batch. Kmart sells the moulds at $2 for 6 pcs.

I usually have some in the freezer for quick snacks.

[judydawn]

Thanks BZB, they look delicious.

[fundj&e]

on my gluten free  list thanks BZB

[judydawn]

I don't think I have tapioca flour BZB, do you have to use it or can I substitute it with potato flour perhaps?  I don't need to cook GF so could I use ordinary flour?

[Cornish Cream]

Thanks for the recipe BZB

[fundj&e]

maybe arrowroot JD

[JulieO]

Or could we mill some tapioca as I can't buy of the flour here?  Wonder if the TM would mill it fine enough? 

[BeezeeBee]

Judy, I'm not sure if you can sub the tapioca flour. It's the ingredient that makes it chewy. Then again, it could work. 😃

You can buy tapioca flour at Asian groceries. The one in my suburb sells a 500g pack at 90 cents.

Julie, I've not milled this flour before. Might be an interesting experiment 😄

[judydawn]

Here you go Julie, spoken about before.

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=12040.0

OR I could try and source it for you and send it up if you like.

[JulieO]

Thanks for the link and the offer to source and send me some flour Judy. 

I'm coming to Adelaide in May for a couple of nights, so if the tapioca doesn't mill down too well, I can look for some of the flour then.  Will def give it a try using Tenina's grind, rest, grind method. Will report back when I do. 

[Itsnotartitsdinner]

Tapioca can generally be substituted for arrowroot

[fundj&e]

i think so 2  Itsnotartitsdinner

[JulieO]

Thanks girls, might give arrowroot a go then. 

[BeezeeBee]

Tried baking with oven today. My oven can't go up to 200c, so I used 160c fan forced. The mini puffs took 20 mins. The regular sized ones took 30 mins to brown.

Prefer the airfried ones. Gives a better texture, but can't get uniform shapes.

[fundj&e]

why is that BZB that u cant get uniform shapes