Pao de queijo with sweetcorn butter

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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.

First published in 2024

Ingredients

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Pao de queijo

Sweetcorn butter

Equipment

  • Silocone mini muffin moulds

Method

1

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a 12 cup mini muffin tin

2

Blend all the ingredients for the pao de queijo until smooth

3

Pour the batter into a prepared mini muffin tin, leaving around 1 cm room from the top

4

Bake the pao de queijo for 15–20 minutes or until they expand and are brown all over

5

Remove from the oven and allow to cool

6

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

7

Serve the pao de queijo with the butter for spreading. At the restaurant, the butter is moulded into the shape sweetcorn, as seen above

First published in 2024

Leaving behind a career in plasma physics in the US to chase her dream of becoming a chef, Caroline Martins has gone on to make a name for herself here in the UK thanks to her refined modern Brazilian cookery. She’s currently wowing guests at her Manchester chef’s table restaurant SAMPA with a Brazilian-British fusion tasting menu.

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