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Tapioca

Name: Tapioca
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Brazil
Ingredients: 150g Granulated Tapioca; A pinch Salt; 80g Melting Cheese; 4 Ham; 3 tbsp Coconut Flakes (sweet filling); 3 tbsp Condensed Milk (sweet filling)

Snack

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

Tapioca starch toasted into a thin sheet on a griddle and folded around sweet or savory fillings — a snack from Brazil's northeast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tapioca is a snack from northeastern Brazil. Gluten-free tapioca starch made from cassava is scattered on a hot griddle, where the heat fuses it into a thin crêpe-like sheet that's filled and folded. Sweet versions with coconut and condensed milk and savory ones with cheese and ham are both popular, sold at beach stalls and dedicated shops all over Brazil.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a beach stall in Rio, customers watch the starch set in an instant on the griddle as they wait for their order.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Granulated Tapioca 150g
Salt A pinch
Melting Cheese 80g
Ham 4
Coconut Flakes (sweet filling) 3 tbsp
Condensed Milk (sweet filling) 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the tapioca starch with salt and push it through a fine sieve so the grains are even.
Sprinkle a thin, even layer of starch into a hot frying pan.
Heat over medium-low for 1–2 minutes until the starch sets into a single sheet.
Put cheese and ham (or condensed milk and coconut) on one half.
Fold in half and cook until the cheese melts.

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