Jamie Magazine
By Jamie Oliver
Coxinha with spiced avocado
Filled with chicken & mozzarella
Not Too Tricky
makes 16
About the recipe
These breaded dough balls are a popular Brazilian street food – filled with chicken, oozy cheese and fried until golden, they’re super moreish, and lovely with this avocado dip.
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Ingredients
500ml organic chicken stock
olive oil
350g plain flour, plus extra
200g leftover cooked free-range chicken
125g mozzarella cheese
2 ripe tomatoes
½ a bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley
4 spring onions
2 limes
3 ripe avocados
chilli sauce
vegetable oil, for frying
150ml fine breadcrumbs
½ teaspoon sweet smoked paprika
1 large free-range egg
100ml milk
Method
- To make the dough, put the stock and a tablespoon of olive oil into a large saucepan. Place over a medium heat, until hot but not boiling.
- Remove from the heat. Season and sift in the flour. Beat it in with a wooden spoon until smooth, then scoop it into a bowl and set aside until just cool enough to handle.
- To make the filling, finely chop the cooked chicken and mozzarella. Deseed and finely chop the tomatoes, then pick and finely chop the parsley leaves (keep the stalks for another day – they’re perfect in the base of a ragù or soup). Trim and finely slice the spring onions.
- Mix everything together in a large bowl. Finely grate in the zest of 1 lime and season to taste.
- Make the avocado dressing by roughly blitzing the flesh of all the avocados, the juice of both limes, a drizzle of olive oil and a good pinch of sea salt and black pepper. Stir in a drizzle of chilli sauce and leave to one side.
- When the dough is ready, turn it out onto a well-floured work surface and knead it for 10 minutes, until silky and smooth. Place a ball of dough in the palm of your floured hand, around the size of a golf ball, and flatten it out into a circle, around 7cm in diameter.
- Spoon in a heaped teaspoon of the chicken filling, then bring the edges together over the chicken and shape it into a small, pear-like pyramid. Keep going until you’ve used up all the dough and filling, lining the coxinhas on a baking tray as you go.
- To cook them, fill a saucepan with vegetable oil and leave it to heat up over a medium heat. Lay out three shallow dishes: mix the breadcrumbs and paprika in one, whisk the egg with the milk and add to another, then scoop a few tablespoons of flour in the third dish.
- Roll each coxinha in the flour, then dip in the beaten egg, and finally roll in the breadcrumbs to coat.
- Check the oil is hot enough by dropping in a little piece of dough. Once it's turned golden and risen to the surface, the oil is ready. Fry the coxhina for 4 to 5 minutes, or until golden and crisp all over – you'll need to do this in batches.
- Remove with a slotted spoon onto kitchen paper, then serve straight away, with the spiced avocado dip on the side.
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