02/18/2025
Good Morning😊🌞
🦐🍫🍗 Today is Foodie Tuesday 🍗🍫🦐
Some Brazilian food includes:
Moqueca (pronounced moo-kek-a)🥣🍲
-Served with theatrical flourish as the piping hot clay pot is uncovered at the table amid clouds of fragrant steam. stewed in diced tomatoes, onions and coriander. The Capixabas add annatto seeds for a natural red food colouring, while the Baianos serve a heavier version, made with palm oil, peppers & coconut milk 🥥. It’s teamed with rice, farofa (toasted manioc flour – ideal for mopping up juices) & pirão (a spicy fish porridge made with manioc flour
Cachaça 🍷🥂
-Made from fermented sugarcane juice & is best known as the fiery kick in caipirinhas – Brazil’s national cocktail. While caipirinhas are often made with uncoloured, unaged cachaças, there are thousands of better-quality golden varieties available, aged in wooden barrels & sipped straight up by aficionados
Acarajé (pronounced a-ka-ra-zjeh) 🍔
-A deep-fried patty of crushed black-eyed peas, palm oil & puréed onions, deep-fried in yet more palm oil before being sliced open & stuffed with dried shrimp & vatapá – a rich & spicy purée of prawns, bread, cashew nuts & other ingredients.
Beijinho de coco 🥥🍫
-Translated as "Coconut Kiss", the beijinho is one of the most delicious Brazilian desserts in the country. It consists of small balls of chocolate, made from condensed milk, butter & coconut. The mixture is cooked over a medium heat to achieve the perfect texture. The mixture is rolled into balls & covered in fine pieces of coconut to create a bite-size sweet treat
Feijoada 🍲🫘
-Rich, hearty stew consists of black beans cooked with different cuts of pork, supplemented with tomatoes, cabbage, & carrots to round out the flavor. Traditionally, it’s made with slow-cooked offal such as trotters & ears. Brazil’s national dish is served with fried kale mixed with bacon bits, rice, farofa (toasted cassava flour), & a slice of orange.
Vatapá 🦐🥥🍚
-A thick stew from Bahia, made from shrimp, bread, ground peanuts, coconut milk, palm oil, & a mixture of herbs, which is mashed into a smooth paste & commonly eaten with rice & acarajé − a type of fritter made from cowpeas. There are different variations of the dish, the shrimp can be replaced with tuna, chicken, cod, or just vegetables!
Empadão 🥧 🌽🍗
-A flaky crust pie filled with casseroled chicken & a mix of vegetables such as corn, hearts of palm, & peas. Beef & shrimp are sometimes used instead of chicken.
Brigadeiro 🍫🧈
-Brazil’s version of the chocolate truffle. This classic dessert is made of condensed milk, cocoa powder, butter, and then shaped into balls and covered in chocolate sprinkles. The traditional brigadeiro is milk chocolate, yet there are also white chocolate versions available, too. They are even more scrumptious when made with a whole strawberry in the center. They are named after the 1940s political figure Brigadier Eduardo Gomes and have been popular since World War II.
What would you try?? 🤔💭
Stay tuned for more about Brazil!!
