Pão de Queijo — Chewy Cheese Puffs

Ingredients

• 2 cups tapioca flour (sour polvilho if you can find it)
• ½ cup milk
• ¼ cup water
• ¼ cup neutral oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup grated queijo minas, or half parmesan half mozzarella

Method

1. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Bring the milk, water, oil, and salt just to a boil in a saucepan.
2. Pour the hot liquid over the tapioca flour and stir into a shaggy, gluey mass — it looks wrong; it's right. Cool 5 minutes.
3. Beat in the egg, then the cheese, kneading with a spatula or damp hands until you have a sticky, stretchy dough.
4. Roll into golf balls with oiled hands and space them on a parchment-lined sheet.
5. Bake 20–25 minutes until puffed and pale gold with the faintest freckles. Eat warm, when the crust cracks and the middle pulls like mozzarella.