 In Curitiba, chicken "coxinhas" filled with cheddar and Araucaria nuts can be found in local restaurants.To mark the cheese they usually have a toothpick where the bone would be in a chicken "coxinha".Other unconventional ingredients, generally used for home-made "coxinhas" made by aficionados, include peas, chopped button mushrooms, palmheart, carrot, cooked and seasoned cashew apples, unripe jackfruit or unripe breadfruit, as well as whole-wheat flour batter or even a vegetarian version of either textured vegetable protein (soy meat) or falafel with appropriate seasonings so its taste resembles a traditional coxinha more closely.