Tapioca Daddies: Easy and healthier, no frying

The traditional recipe, for happy hour, grilled or feijoada, healthier, to be cooked instead of fried

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• Portion: 4
• TOOLS: 1 chopping board, 1 grater, 1 milk jug, 1 bowl, 1 baking tray, 1 deep or frying pan, 1 or more trays.
• EQUIPMENT: conventional + processor (optional) with coarse grating blade.

Tapioca Daddies Ingredients:

• 250 g of granulated tapioca
• 250 g of coarsely grated ricotta
• 500 ml of heated whole milk
• salt
• corn oil for greasing

Ingredients to accompany:

• Honey to taste (optional)
• pepper jelly (optional)
• Other of your choice (optional)

PRE-PREPARATION:

1. Separate recipe ingredients and utensils.
2. Prepare a baking sheet for placing the dough, grease it with oil and cover it with cling film.
3. Grate the coalho cheese (thick) on the grater or using a food processor.
4. Put the milk with a little salt in a milk jug and heat it over high heat, without letting it boil.
5. If baking, separate the shapes — you may need more than one since the cubes can’t overlap. Drizzle them with oil and set aside.

PREPARATION:

Tapioca Daddies – Dough:

1. In a bowl, mix the grated coalho cheese with the granulated tapioca.
2. Pour the hot milk over the tapioca and coalho cheese mixture.
3. Wait a few minutes for the tapioca to absorb all the milk.
4. Place the still warm dough in the tray lined with cling film (choose the correct size tray so that the dadinho dough is 2cm high).
5. Take the dough into the freezer for 1 hour or until very firm.
6. Remove from the freezer and unmold onto a cutting board.
7. Cut into 2x2cm squares.

Tapioca Daddies – Bake:

1. Preheat the oven to 220°C.
2. Put the dice without overlapping them in the greased moulds.
3. Place in a preheated oven and bake for 15-25 minutes.
4. Halfway through that time, it turns brown on the other side.
5. When they are browned on all sides, remove from the oven and switch off.

Tapioca Daddies – Freeze:

1. To freeze, after having cut them into squares, place them on one or more trays lined with transparent film, without overlapping them.
2. Take it to the freezer until the dadinhos are well frozen.
3. Transfer to a plastic bag, remove air, and freeze.

Tapioca Daddies – Frozen Flan:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Put the dice without overlapping them in the greased moulds.
3. Place in preheated oven and cook for 5 minutes, or enough time to defrost.
4. Raise the temperature to 220°C.
5. Repeat the remaining steps of the to roast previously described from here.

FINISHING AND ASSEMBLY:

1. Serve the dadinhos piping hot.
2. Accompany with sugar factory honey, chilli pepper jelly or anything else of your choice.

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Source: Terra

Ben

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