Pao de queijo is an iconic Brazillian bread, made with tapioca starch and cheese for chewy, cheesy gluten-free bread buns. Here Caroline Martins serves her pao de queijo with a really simple sweetcorn compound butter, which in the restaurant she moulds into a perfect corn cob.
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a 12 cup mini muffin tin
Blend all the ingredients for the pao de queijo until smooth
Pour the batter into a prepared mini muffin tin, leaving around 1 cm room from the top
Bake the pao de queijo for 15–20 minutes or until they expand and are brown all over
Remove from the oven and allow to cool
For the sweetcorn butter, add all the ingredients to a food processor and blitz until smooth. Take care not to let the food processor overheat, or this will melt the mixture and it will split
Serve the pao de queijo with the butter for spreading. At the restaurant, the butter is moulded into the shape sweetcorn, as seen above
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