How To Cook Brazilian Chicken Chunks (Coxinha) And Tomato Sauce - Recipe
Author: Ivan Red Jr.
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Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
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Learn how to cook "Brazilian bites with chicken (Coxinha) and tomato sauce". Delicious recipe.
Coxinha is a popular food in Brazil, consisting of sliced or grated chicken, covered with a teardrop-shaped dough, flavored, breaded and fried.
These chicken nuggets are eaten as an appetizer or main course and are one of the most traditional Brazilian dishes. Translated literally Coxinha (coxinha) means "little leg".
The products that are described in the recipe are for about 10 - 12 coxins.
Necessary products for the preparation of the recipe for Brazilian chicken bites:
for the filling:- 300 grams of boiled chicken, finely chopped
- 1 box of cream cheese
- 1-2 large potatoes (pre-cooked and mashed)
- 1 large onion
- 3-4 cloves of garlic
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 teaspoons flour
- 2 teaspoons broth
- 2 eggs
- breadcrumbs
- frying fat
- 1/2 cup vinegar (or lemon juice)
- 1/2 teaspoon oil
- 1 tomato
- 2 large red peppers
- 2 hot peppers
- 1 onion
- 3-4 cloves of garlic
- a handful of parsley
- salt, black and red pepper to taste
How to prepare Brazilian chicken bites:
Finely chop the chicken and mix it with the cream cheese and pre-cooked potatoes.
Separately fry the onion and garlic until nicely golden brown and add to the meat. Season with salt and pepper.
To prepare the dough, heat the broth in a saucepan over low heat and gradually add the flour, stirring vigorously for 2-3 minutes until a homogeneous dough. Allow it to cool, then shape it into about 10-12 larger balls or, if desired, smaller ones.
Spread each ball in the palm of your hand and add the chicken stuffing.
Shape the balls into a pear shape.
Roll each of the balls in the pre-beaten eggs, then in the breadcrumbs and fry in hot oil for about 5-6 minutes, turning them so that they do not burn.
To prepare the spicy tomato sauce, blend all the ingredients in a food processor, then cook the resulting mixture on low heat for about 20 minutes.
Serve the Brazilian coxins with a spicy tomato sauce if desired.
Have a good time!
History of the Koksinha chicken bites:
Like all dishes with similar popularity, this one is accompanied by an interesting story. Many years ago, in a small Brazilian town called Limeira lived Princess Isabel Cristina Leopoldina Augusta Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga, who had 4 children. One of them suffered from an unknown disease and ate only fried chicken legs. It happened that all available chicken legs in the kitchen broke. To save the little heir to the throne from starvation, the commander-in-chief of the royal kitchen invented a new delicacy, the popularity of which went beyond Brazil. Namely - fried chicken with onions, a little cheese and spices, cleverly presented in the form of a chicken leg.
These so delicious fried chicken bites have spread not only in Brazil, but throughout the Latin American continent, prepared in different ways.
- Garlic chicken nuggets with nuts and soy sauce
- Chicken bites with yellow cheese and walnuts
- Party bites of bread, ham, cheese and olives
- Chunks of cream cheese and yellow cheese with dried tomatoes and walnuts
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