Recipe to prepare a simple "Meat Bread" / Bôla de Carne

If you´ve seen my previous post, you know that Bôla de Carne or Meat Bread, how I call it in English, was one of the things I´ve prepared for my son´s birthday party. This is another first in my cooking experience, but it´s been part of the family since ever, as my grandmother used to make often.

The recipe, however, is different. I followed the one suggested by Thermomix´s cookbook and used the appliance to prepare it. It will be very easy to prepare it without it though.

Ingredients

4 eggs

200g oil

300g milk

500g flour

2 tea spoons of baking powder

Salt

Bacon

Sausage (I used a Portuguese type of sausage, called linguiça)

You can choose to use ham or other types of sausage, all together or just one type of meat.

Preparation

Mix the eggs, milk, oil and salt. If you use Thermomix, program it at 2 min/37º/vel2. If you´re not using it, I would suggest you heat the milk up a little bit before.
Then, pour in the flour in and the baking powder and knead the dough. Finally, add the meats already chopped and involve them in the dough.

Time to go to the oven for about 35-40 minutes at 180º (pre-heated). Check if the bread is cooked before removing it from the oven. I used a rectangular tray, you can choose any other shape.

Seriously, you have to try this amazing Portuguese flavor, you´ll love it! There are other ways to prepare this, but this one has all the simplicity and taste you could hope for!