Brazilian cuisine - 10 cooking recipes

It’s interesting that each of the 27 states (regions) of Brazil has its own culinary tradition, and to learn everything about Brazilian cuisine, you need to go everywhere and try all the homemade dishes. The most common products here are beans, meat (in all forms and manifestations ), fish and seafood, fruits and coconut (milk and shavings). The only thing homemade and loved by all Brazilians without exception is feijoada. Like Ukrainian borscht, every housewife has her own delicious feijoada. Its basis is black beans, fried meats (pork, sausage, ham), spices and cassava flour. This dish is served with cabbage, orange pulp cubes and rice. Its origin is from African slaves. Every evening the slaves received leftover food from the masters' table - fried butter at the bottom of the cauldron, pieces of meat, cracklings. The animals were fed black beans, and they went into the common cauldron of the subordinate layer of the population. Coconut milk and herbs also went there. The Portuguese immigrants added sausage for flavor. This is how this recipe developed. Lamb fried in pieces of different sizes on metal rods is popular. Shurasko (that's what it's called) is prepared both in portioned slices and whole carcasses. The abundance of seafood and hot weather almost all year long taught local residents to dry and cure fish, shrimp, and shellfish. In this form they are added to soups and stews. Coconut water is the basis of many first and second courses. Sweets are common. Light in composition, they are quick to prepare and simple in appearance.