🇧🇷 Brazil cuisine · #4

Coxinha

Coxinha
Time120 min
Serves20
Ingredients12

Teardrop-shaped dough filled with shredded chicken and cream cheese, crumbed and fried — Brazil's star snack.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Poach and shred the chicken and cook with onion, garlic and parsley.
  2. Boil stock, milk and butter, add flour at once and stir to a dough; knead while warm.
  3. Flatten a piece, add chicken and cheese and shape into a teardrop.
  4. Coat in egg and crumbs.
  5. Fry at 170°C until golden.