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How to Make Brazilian Tapioca Pancakes - Simply Jocelyn
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May 9, 2025
How to Make Brazilian Tapioca Pancakes. If you visit Brazil, especially in the northeast of Brazil you will see Tapioca stands where locals make incredible filled pancakes or crepes made out of Tapioca flour. This is one of our favorite deserts or breakfast dishes from Brazil. Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Grab Some of Jocelyn's Favorite Kitchen Gear Ninja Blender/Food Processor - https://amzn.to/30F4vXZ Calphalon Tri-Ply Stainless Steel Cookware - https://amzn.to/30sZ91O GreenPan Lima Ceramic Non-Stick Griddle - https://amzn.to/2BNCa77 PriorityChef Mortar and Pestle - https://amzn.to/3ff4rCd Silicone Stretch Lids for Keeping Things Fresh - https://amzn.to/2UvX6pL Le Creuset Stoneware Butter Crock - https://amzn.to/2UwIxSV
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Hola amigos, Jocelyn with Walter's World and while we're on quarantine and unable to travel
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I've been cooking a lot of our favorite dishes that we've had around the world
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And today I'm going to make my kids breakfast from Brazil. And these are just generally called tapioca, but they're tapioca, they're sort of like a tapioca crepe, if you will
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And they're really super simple. They're wonderful because you can fill them with just about anything under the sun
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In Brazil, you'll get these wonderful little crepes and maybe they'll have beef in them
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or guava or sweetened condensed milk. That's our family's favorite. They can be sweet or savory
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Like I said, it can be fruit or it can be beef. I love mine with cheese in them
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But like I said, they're kind of like a makeshift thing for everything. You get them on the beach
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You'll get them in restaurants. You'll get them at your hotel. They're wonderful and they're very typical to the northeast of Brazil
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So they really take very few ingredients and I'm going to show you how to do that
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So let's get started. First off, you need tapioca flour or tapioca starch
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This is maybe the messiest stuff you'll ever touch in your life
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So here we go. I keep it like double bagged because it doesn't matter what I do
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bag leaks all over the place. Can you see that? It's just a disastrous mess. All these crepes are
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made of is tapioca flour and water, and it's about a two-to-one ratio. So we're going to do
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about a cup of flour today and about half a cup of water. And the trick, there's a couple tricks
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with these. They're really simple, but there are a couple tricks. So we're just going to do that
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do you see what I said by messy so when I cook with this I always have a wet rag and a dry rag
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to clean up I'm probably getting covered in flour and by the end of this I'll be a giant
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it look like a snowman or something okay so here's how we do it so we're gonna add water
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by like tablespoon two tablespoon you don't have to measure it when you do it
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Just it needs to be little by little and you kind of just squish it all together
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I use, I told you it was messy. I use a fork or sometimes I'll use a whisk
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But I find a fork breaks it up better. So as we pour, this will start making these big clumps
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Clumps are normal and that's kind of what you want. when you make this and you get too much water it kind of look like this messy liquid kind of like mercury If you ever seen mercury it looks like a solid thing that is liquid
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Okay, so I've got this just about to the right consistency. It's just big chunks of stuff, right
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And all you've really done is just moisten this. So we're going to do this both ways with the sifter and with the seed
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my sister is not I don't know I need a new one this thing I bought it and I thought it was really
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great it's not really great so you know we're gonna we're gonna see how it works because this
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is kind of glumpy stuff um so we're gonna do this both ways we'll just put this stuff over here
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might as well get it all over the stovetop because um like I said tapioca is like the
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messiest stuff on earth. It's like glitter. You know, you find glitter everywhere after you've used it
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So just a little bit of butter, let it melt, just to grease your pan
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And I'm going to turn this to sort of a medium high
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All right, we'll try this mamai's way. This is how they usually do it in Brazil
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It's pretty easy. I just grate it right onto the pan. Some people put it into a bowl and then do it
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I find that this works pretty easily. This is the way I was taught
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I've kind of made a bit of a pile right there in the middle. Try and even it out a little
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So all this does is like it kind of does it itself
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It doesn't look like it's cooking, does it? But if you look at the edges, it's all kind of come together of its own accord
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So about 30 seconds on one side. And then if you're brave, you can flip it like, you know, a chef does
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I am not a chef. I am a mom and a traveler. So I will use this spatula and cross my fingers just a little
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So it starting to get just a little bit golden brown and I think I could have left it on that side just a little bit longer to make it just slightly more golden but I still want it to be
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pretty pliable so I don't want it to get really brown either um I will say that most people put
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a pinch of salt in theirs I don't put salt in mine um I think that I'm just trying to keep a
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low-salt diet in our house, maybe. I don't know. I mean, you have to use salt sometimes, but
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I don't miss it in this, and I don't think that it changes the consistency at all. So
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we'll just put that. There we go. That's one down. We've got 400 left to go
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All right, so I'm going to do the one with the other thing. So, I am just going to get all these
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little bits off the side, push them away because I find that they're going to burn and they're
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going to make my actual pancake taste yucky. So I'm going to move those and we'll try it
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this time with the sifter. All right
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That one's really little, isn't it? But that's okay. That'll be mine
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the first time I had these I thought they were just the most magnificent thing
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my kids of course got theirs full of Nutella um because that's like their favorite thing to put in
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any kind of grape or on pancakes and I chose um a savory one and that was filled with cheese and
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eggs it was like a really unusual sort of thing for Brazil actually um and then I had a fruit one
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The fruit one was just incredible. But those fruits, if they have names in English, are absolutely impossible to find in the Midwest where we live
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So I kind of have to make do with regular fillings So this is what we do So I got my little tapioca pancakes And I going to make mine and I promise mine going to be the little one
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I like cheese. Just going to put a little cheese in there. This is really great to then set back
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on your pan and let the cheese just melt a little bit. And it's really nice. And then I'm going to
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make one for Liam who has a ridiculous sweet tooth. His is just going to be a little
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sweetened condensed milk and a dollop of Nutella, sorry. Just a little Nutella and sweetened condensed milk for him
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And then you kind of roll them over. Like I said, these are kind of little
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It takes a little more time to get them right and thick, but they're nice and pliable and just a
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a little bit crispy on the edges. So that's how you make a tapioca pancake from Brazil
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Mine are never beautiful. I think you have to have Brazilian blood to make them really big
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beautiful, perfect pancakes, but you know what? My kids love them anyway. So just remember
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it's about two to one ratio, two parts tapioca flour, tapioca starch to water
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and you want it to be nice and dry and crumbly and you just scrape it right into the pan and let it
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cook pretty quickly. It's really easy. It's also like the messiest thing you're ever going to make
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If you could see the floor over here, there's like half a pound of tapioca flour on the floor
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that I'm standing in. It's lovely. Minus that. It's really fun. It's fun to do with your kids
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because they get to have like a buffet and fill it up with all sorts of fun little things that
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they enjoy. So I hope that you really enjoy this wonderful breakfast snack food that you get in
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Brazil, just like our family does. And have fun. Happy travels. Yummy. So one of the great things
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that I should really mention about tapioca is that it's gluten-free. So a lot of people can eat it
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And if you're dairy-free or whatever, you can also fill it with things that are appropriate to your diet
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But it's so tasty. I love this. The texture is incredible. Chewy, a little crispy
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It just goes so well with so many things. So enjoy
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