Brazil

🇧🇷Brazil

Cupuaçu

Copoazú

An Amazonian fruit with a tart, fragrant pulp used in juices, ice creams, mousses, and desserts, with a flavor likened to cocoa and pineapple.

🇧🇷Brazil

Curau

A sweet corn pudding made from grated green corn cooked with milk, sugar, and cinnamon, traditionally served during Festa Junina.

🇧🇷Brazil

Cuscuz de Tapioca

A Northeastern Brazilian tapioca couscous, moist and sweet, often served with coconut and butter.

🇧🇷Brazil

Cuscuz Nordestino

A steamed cornmeal cake from the Northeast, made with tapioca or corn flour and coconut milk, eaten sweet with coconut or savory with cheese and eggs.

🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil

Cuscuz Paulista

A São Paulo savory cornmeal couscous steamed in a ring mold and layered with tomato, sardines, tuna, olives, boiled eggs and peppers. Served cold at parties and picnics.

🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil

Dobradinha

A hearty Brazilian tripe and white bean stew, simmered with bacon, sausage, tomatoes and herbs. Traditional in São Paulo and across the country, especially on Tuesdays.

🇧🇷Brazil

Doce de Espécie

A traditional Brazilian northeastern spiced sweet baked as a small fragrant cookie or pastry.

🇧🇷Brazil

Doce de Leite

A thick, creamy milk caramel spread made by slowly simmering milk and sugar for hours until it turns golden brown and spreadable.

🇧🇷Brazil

Empada

Empada de perdiz

A small crumbly shortcrust pie filled with shredded chicken, heart of palm or cheese, baked in fluted molds and sold at padarias and beach kiosks.

🇧🇷Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Entrevero

A southern Brazilian skillet of meats, vegetables and pinhão associated with the Serra Gaúcha and winter gatherings.

🇧🇷Brazil

Escondidinho

A baked casserole of mashed cassava or potatoes layered with seasoned shredded meat, topped with cheese until golden and bubbling.

🇧🇷Brazil

Espetinho

Brazilian street meat skewers of beef, chicken, sausage or chicken hearts grilled over charcoal on a cart, basted with garlic oil and served with cassava flour and salsa.

🇧🇷Brazil

Estrogonofe

Brazilian stroganoff made creamy and served with rice and batata palha, a fully creolized home-and-restaurant staple.

🇧🇷Brazil

Farofa

A toasted manioc flour mixture, often sautéed with butter, bacon, onions, or herbs, served as a crunchy accompaniment to stews and barbecue.

🇧🇷Brazil

Feijoada

A hearty stew of black beans simmered with various pork cuts, traditionally served with rice, collard greens, orange slices, and farofa.

🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

Feijão Tropeiro

A hearty dish from Minas Gerais of beans cooked with manioc flour, bacon, sausage, eggs, and greens, historically eaten by muleteers.

🇧🇷Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Filé à Oswaldo Aranha

Rio's garlic-crusted steak served with farofa, white rice and fried potatoes, named for the statesman who ordered it.

🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

Frango com Quiabo

Minas Gerais chicken and okra stew, with pieces of chicken braised until tender with onions, tomatoes and whole okra pods in a rich, slightly viscous sauce.

🇧🇷Goiás, Brazil

Galinhada

A chicken and rice pot dish from Goiás and Minas Gerais, simmered with saffron, vegetables, and sometimes peas, garnished with fried potato sticks.

🇧🇷Brazil

Goiabada

A firm, sweet guava paste made by cooking guava pulp with sugar until thick, traditionally paired with queijo minas in the Romeo and Juliet pairing.

🇧🇷Brazil

Guabiroba

A fragrant yellow Brazilian native fruit eaten fresh or made into juices, sweets and regional liqueurs.

🇧🇷Brazil

Guaraná Antarctica

Brazil's iconic guaraná-flavored soft drink, sweet, pale brown and slightly fruity. A national soda served at barbecues, parties and everyday meals.

🇧🇷Brazil

Guaraná Soda

Guaraná

A sweet, caffeinated soft drink flavored with guaraná extract from Amazonian berries, one of the most popular sodas in Brazil.

🇧🇷Brazil

Içá Frita

Fried içá ants from the Paraíba Valley, eaten as a rare seasonal delicacy with a crisp, nutty bite.

🇧🇷Brazil

Jabuticaba

A Brazilian grape-like fruit that grows directly on the trunk and branches of the jabuticabeira. Sweet, tart and dark purple, eaten fresh or made into jellies, liqueurs and wines.

🇧🇷Brazil

Jambu

A leafy Amazonian herb (paracress) whose leaves and yellow flowers numb and tingle the mouth, indispensable in tacacá and pato no tucupi.

🇧🇷Brazil

Juçara Palm Heart

Palmito de Juçara

Tender juçara palm heart from the Atlantic Forest, valued as a conservation-minded alternative to açaí-palm hearts.

🇱🇧Aleppo, Lebanon

Kibbeh

كبة

Meat and bulgur croquettes, fried or baked, crispy exterior with well-seasoned meat and proper bulgur texture, a popular Arabic dish in UAE, traditional and beloved, festive and daily, versatile and hearty.

🇧🇷Brazil

Leite de Onça

A creamy Brazilian holiday cocktail of cachaça, condensed milk and spices, poured cold in December gatherings.

🇧🇷Brazil

Limonada Suíça

A frothy Brazilian blended lemonade with lime peel, sugar, water, and ice, pale green and refreshing.

🇧🇷Brazil

Macaxeira

Cassava in its starchy root form, a tropical tuber that is Brazil's daily carbohydrate in the north and northeast. Used boiled, fried, mashed and in flour.

🇧🇷Brazil

Macaxeira Frita

Fried cassava sticks or chunks, crispy outside and starchy inside, a Northeastern snack.

🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

Malagueta Pepper

Pimenta Malagueta

Small fiery Brazilian chili used fresh or in pepper sauces, especially in Bahian and northeastern cooking.

🇧🇷Pará, Brazil

Maniçoba

An Amazonian stew of finely ground cassava leaves simmered for days with smoked meats, sausages, and bacon, served with rice and farinha.

🇧🇷Brazil

Manjar Branco

A pure white Brazilian coconut pudding set in a ring mold and served cold with a sauce of prunes poached in port wine. A classic New Year's and Yemanjá dessert.

🇧🇷Brazil

Manteiga de Garrafa

Clarified butter from Brazil's Northeast, poured from a bottle over carne de sol, beans and cassava.