Thread: best Brazilian food and drink

hey every one i am going to have my 1st visit to this amazing country. i need to know several things about food. can any one tell me about the best drink and also the best food which may be traditional, home made or may be a food that is only found in Brazil. i have to experience the food. don't think about price just tell em the specific place where i can get that and the way to go there.
thanks

Brazilian cuisine, like Brazil itself, varies greatly by region.

Some of the best and popular cuisine includes:

- Rice and beans: an extremely popular dish, considered basic at table; a tradition Brazil shares with several Caribbean nations.
- Salgadinhos: small savory snacks (literally salty snacks). Similar to Spanish tapas, these are mostly sold in corner shops and a staple at working class and lower middle-class familiar celebrations.
- Feijoada: a very popular dish nationwide. Clockwise, starting in center top: cooked wild cabbage, sliced orange, a bottle of cachaça, a glass with batៅida de limão (lemon mashed with cachaça), pepper, rice, torresmo, farofa, fried manioc and blackbeans. In the center, pork.
- Caipirinha: a national drink.

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hey its grate. wanna have those food nowwwwwwwwwwww!!can you plz include the average price of these food and drink? is the drink contain alcohol? i haired that Brazilian is is different. they are like Japanese rice, long, sticky and also have a flavor of its own type. is it true?

yeah! Brazil offers a lot of very mouthwatering foods. I ran through some sites and figured out that Brazilian foods revolves around three main ingredients: (1) white rice; (2) black beans and (3) flour.. They eat these foods with read meat, fish and i think chicken.

thanks for the information. they get a lot of fish from their ports. so they are very fond of fishes and they get them at a very cheap rate. you will get different items of fishes in all of the restaurateurs in every city of Brazil.

Hi Travel Lover.This huge country offers a cuisine as diverse as its regions and climates, I would personally recommend cachaça - which as your drink is made with limes, sugar, water and the sugar cane brandy very tasty1 And for your food I would say - tacacá - which is a spicy soup; pato no tucupi - a spiced duck dish; and vatapa - a seafood dish in a thick, rich sauce. A particular favourite home-made food in brazil is feijoada, which is a rich stew consisting of pork ears, chops, knuckles and strips of dried beef and black beans; usually served with rice.Enjoy and let me know what you think!

anything barbecue for me! fish, pork and beef! if goat is available !

Hi Travel Lover, nice to meet you!

I am a Brazilian native, and I live in São Paulo city, but when in Brazil, please ask for "Comida Baiana", food of Bahia state. Bahia´s food is a very, very typical Brazilian food that you won´t find in any part of the world. It´s similar to Indian food, but diferent.

Bahia´s food is prepared with many diferent spices, such as "Leite de Côco" (Milk of Coconut), "Azeite de Dendê" (A kind of olive oil), "Pimenta" (pepper), do you like chili peppers, so go to Bahia, Fortaleza, Natal, Maceió, Brazil´s northeast region.

Please ask for the following foods:

1 - Acarajé (Mashed beans involved in a fried pasta with lots of excelent spices);

2 - Bobó de Camarão (With Shrimps);

3 - Carne de Sol Assada (Roasted dried meat);

4 - Carurú;

5 - Moqueca de Camarão (A very delicious mashed shrimps);

6 - Moqueca de Peixe;

7 - Sarapatel;

8 - Cambucu Assado (It´s a typical fish of northeast sea waters);

9 - Vatapá (If you like chili peppers, please try this!...Very good);

10 - Cuscuz (It´s another wonderful food).


These foods are very typical and popular in the Northeast region, but you can find them in some restaurants in the Southest of Brazil, such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo cities.

Bon appetite!

Hello Travel Lover,

I am back to tell you about our typical drinks, that you can find in any part of Brazil.

The most important typical drink that you can´t neither think in forget to try is the famous CAIPIRINHA!

Yes, "caipirinha" is know for all over Brazilian people in any Brazilian city.

It´s a delicious drink prepared with PINGA (it would be such as Vodka, but made from sugarcane), crushed lemon, a bit sugar, and ice.

PINGA or AGUARDENTE is a very typical drink in Brazil for centuries.

Try it when you were in the beach, or at night in any place.

Have a good time in Brazil!

Tequila men universal drink and barbecue universal food!wow

Bolinhos de Bacalhau (Salt Cod Fritters)

1 pound salt cod
2 cups of mashed potatoes
2 tbsps of finely chopped parsley
2 large eggs
oil for frying
Soak salt cod overnight and during the morning, changing water three times. Drain, remove skin and any bones and cut in small chunks. The next step is poaching the cod. In Boston, I learned a great trick from Julia Child, who used to call her fritters Aunt Priscilla's Codfish Balls (there's a Portuguese connection somewhere...). I always do it her way now. Simmer a small onion, thinly sliced, with a bay leaf and 4 peppercorns in 2 cups of water. After 5 minutes, add the cod and 2 cups of water. When it simmers, cover the pan and remove from heat, so the cod doesn't toughen. You can keep the cod in this liquid in the refrigerator until ready to use it.
To form the bolinhos: drain the fish and flake it well into a bowl. Add 2 cups of mashed potatoes; beat two eggs with a pinch of salt and add them to the fish and potatoes. Some cooks like to separate the eggs, adding first the yolks, then the beaten whites. Add the parsley (and if you want, 1 small chopped onion), salt and freshly grated pepper to taste. Wait about 1/2 hour to form the balls; they should be about 1 1/2 inches. Use good, fresh oil for frying (set deep-fryer temperature at 375°). Dry in paper towels.

brazilian pizza is one of the best and lemonaid...

Hey Travel Lover, come to Brazil, São Paulo, and experience a great FEIJOADA with CAIPIRINHA in a good restaurant named BOLINHA, located in São Paulo city. This is a very good restaurant, that many Paulistanos go on weekends, but other days, too.

BOLINHA is specialized in FEIJOADA for a long time, many years!

BOLINHA - A CASA DA FEIJOADA - Phone: +55 (11) 3061-2010

BOLINHA - A CASA DA FEIJOADA - Tel.: +55 (11) 3061-2010

In São Paulo, the average price of a FEIJOADA prepared for 4 people costs about $50.00, and you can eat very well. CAIPIRINHA is about $5.00 a drink (cup), well served.

Bon apetit!!!

Geeze and i thought i was living large with the salgado and refesco promotion

lemonaid ismy favorite drink. i like the el chorizo de noche..

I love moqueca. I learned to do it in a "Cook in Rio" class. Highly recommended. 1-Day Brazilian cooking classes with Cook in Rio - Rio de Janeiro

But please, there are many excellent wines from the South region of Brazil!

Not only Caipirinha...uh!

there are many food that have in brazil it depends to you..

In addition, we Brazilians love to eat too much pizza (some of the most popular pizzas: mozzarella, pepperoni, anchovies, tuna).

brazillian pizza is my favorite..and for the drink lemonaid is one..

Hi guys, i am currently preparing my first trip to Brasil too and I found this article in the Guardian- might be interesting for some of you. I can't wait to taste some Brasilian food, it sounds lovely!
Brazil + Food and drink | Travel | guardian.co.uk

I like pastel and bolinho be bacalhau. These are more like snacks instead of heavy food

Hi Bassrocks, good news from Brazil. Very good link! Hugs.

In the middle part of Brazil most of the cuisine is characterized by the use of pork, fish, beef, soybeans, manioc, and rice. The foods of the Northern area of the country uses much tropical fruits, fish, peanuts, and manioc. Edibles of the northeastern region is described as using much tropical fruits, seafood, beans, onions, and rice, among others. So, there is definitely a wide variation of foods depending on what region you visit!

My favorite Brazilian food is
Brazilian Pizza
Carurú;
Moqueca de Camarão (A very delicious mashed shrimps);
Moqueca de Peixe;
Sarapatel;
Cambucu Assado

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Not only Feijoada is the best food in Brazil. Brazil has a vast coast, too many beaches, so we have excellent fishes to eat.

Try to eat a "Tainha Assada" (Roasted Tainha); "Cambucu" very good fish; "Pescada Branca" (an excellent fish sold in the beaches and restaurants); "Salmão" (salmon); etc.

There are excellent recipes with fishes, a long variety of good fishes in Brazil.

Hi Guys....I want to share my favourite Brazilian Foods as the names given below

Cambucu Assado
Moqueca de Camarão
Tainha Assada

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Thanks johnywalker. Your post makes my salivate.

The typical Brazilian food is feijoada. For those who like strong plates!
After a good feijoada you certainly will not be able to leave for the beach or hiking for many hours! This is because it is made on black beans basis and many parts of pork, which are added, such as tail, feet, ears and loins. Accompanied by cassava flour, rice and vegetables, feijoada dish is ideal to eated in the winter.

Oh yes, for sure!!! Here is a nice recipe for that Reunica:

Ingredients

Feijoada:

• 1/2 pound chorizo
• 1 pound smoked pork shoulder
• 1 pound lean bacon, in one piece, rind removed
• 4 ounces smoked tongue (optional)
• 1/2 pound carne seca
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 medium onions, finely chopped
• 2 large cloves garlic, minced
• 3 bay leaves
• 3 sprigs parsley
• 2 sprigs thyme
• 1 pigs trotter, blanched and scraped, if necessary
• 1 pound pork shoulder
• 1 pound lean beef chuck, in one piece
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 3 1/2 quarts water
• 4 cups black beans, picked over, soaked overnight, and drained
• To serve
• Greens MineiraStyle (recipe attached)
• Cooked white rice
• 5 oranges, peeled and cut into segments without the pith, then cut into 1/2inch chunks

Directions

Soak the smoked and salted meats in a large pan overnight. The next morning, drain, rinse, and soak again until ready to cook. In a large heavy stock pot, heat the oil over medium low heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until they are softened and translucent. Add the garlic and cook for 3 minutes more, until the aroma is released. Tie the bay leaves, parsley, and thyme together to make a bouquet garni, and add it to the pan, along with the dried soaked meats, fresh meats, and the water. Bring slowly to a boil over medium heat, then reduce the heat and skim the fats and scum from the top. Cook for 1 hour, then add the beans, return to a simmer, and again skim any scum from the top. Simmer for another hour. As each piece of meat becomes fork tender, remove it, starting with the beef chuck and finishing with the salted meats. Place the cooked meats on a platter, cover with aluminum foil, and keep warm in a low oven. Remove all the meat and skin from the pigs trotter and dice it. Discard the bone and add the meat to the beans. Cut the carne seca into 1/2 inch dice and also return it to the beans. Continue cooking the beans for 20 minutes more, or until tender. Remove any fat or gristle from the remaining cuts of meat, then cube or slice it into bitesized pieces. Arrange the sliced chorizo, pork shoulder, bacon, fresh pork, and beef on one side of a large heated platter and place the beans on the other side (if using the smoked tongue, traditionally it should be placed in the center of the platter). Serve hot, accompanied by Green Mineira Style, cooked white rice and orange segments.

Wow......that's great infor.I like brazilian vegeterian food.