COPPER🇧🇷 Brazil
Coxinha recipe
Deliciously crispy chicken-filled Brazilian treats!
Ingredients
- 500 g chicken breast
- 1 onion
- 2 garlic
- 50 g butter
- 250 g flour
- 500 ml chicken broth
- 100 g bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- 500 ml oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
How to make Coxinha
- Boil 500 g of chicken breast with 1 onion and 2 minced garlic cloves in water until cooked, about 15-20 minutes.
- Remove the chicken and shred it into pieces.
- In a pan, melt 50 g of butter over medium heat.
- Add 1 chopped onion and sauté until soft, about 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in 250 g of flour and cook until golden, about 2 minutes.
- Gradually pour in 500 ml of chicken broth while stirring continuously.
- Continue stirring until the mixture thickens into a dough, about 5 minutes.
- Once cool, take small pieces of dough and fill each with shredded chicken, shaping them into teardrops.
- Beat 1 egg in a bowl; dip each shaped coxinha in the egg.
- Coat in 100 g of bread crumbs until well-covered.
- Fry in oil at 180°C until golden brown, about 3-5 minutes.
- Serve hot.
What is Coxinha?
Coxinha is a traditional dish from Brazil, cooked in a pan, and takes about 120 minutes from start to finish. It is built around chicken breast, chicken broth and flour. The recipe below uses 11 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Coxinha take?
At 120 minutes it is slower than 79% of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 12 dishes built on chicken breast. The method runs to 12 steps, the longest being 15 minutes.
Any tips for making Coxinha?
Use cold chicken broth for the dough to achieve the perfect texture.
Copper documents Brazil alongside 195 other countries. Throw a dart at the world map and let it decide what you cook tonight.