Bolinhos

My sister makes the best bolinhos and everybody simply loves them.They make for a great tea-time treat and work well even for a snack.

The best bolinhos recipe

Ingredients: 
2 ½ coconuts (preferably freshly plucked) grated, taking care to avoid the skin.

½ kg sugar

½ kg semolina

5 cardamoms, powdered or a few drops of vanilla essence

9 egg yolks

½ tspn salt

½ glass water

 
Method:

• Slightly roast the semolina and keep it aside to cool.

Slightly roasted semolina kept for cooling

• Make a syrup with sugar, water, salt and cardamom powder/vanilla essence, boiling it till you get a thread like consistency. 

Preparation of sugar syrup for the bolinhos

 

 

 

Boil sugar syrup for bolinhos to thread-like consistency

• Add grated coconut and mix, once the coconut is cooked, turn off the flame. 

  

  Grated coconut added to the sugar syrup for bolihos

• Keep this mixture to cool.
• When completely cooled, add egg yolks and the cooled semolina.
• Mix well and keep overnight.

  

  Bolinhos mixture kept overnight

• Next morning, shape the mixture into balls, flatten and put cuts with a butter knife.   
• Place on a buttered and floured tray and bake at 200C till golden brown. 

  

  Bolinhos ready for baking