Video: Brazilian Feijoada Recipe

Brazilian food recipes, very much like Brazil itself, vary greatly by region. This diversity portrays the different races of people like Portuguese, Italians, Africans, Spaniards, Poles, Germans, Japanese and Lebanese in Brazil. They have developed a cooking style that shows the existence of regional differences. The food recipe of Brazil gave birth to its national dish, whole feijoada which is a bean and meat stew, akin to a dish cassoulet from France.

Food recipes in North Brazil: - The indigenous cuisine has heavily influenced the food recipes of this region. In the state of Pará the famous dishes are as follows:

• Pato no tucupi, the most popular dish associated to the Círio de Nazaré, a Christmas like celebration among the people of Pará. The dish is prepared from tucupi, a yellow broth derived from cassava and duck meat. Duck is first cooked and then is boiled in tucupi after it is cut into pieces.
• Caruru is made with dried shrimp, okra, chicory and alfavaca.
• Vatapá is a dish prepared in Bahia.
• Manicoba takes a week to be cooked. It is served with flour water, white rice and hot pepper.

Food recipes in Northeast Brazil: - The region is a narrow coastal plain with abundant rainfall. Tropical products like sugarcane and cacao are grown in abundant in this fertile coastal plain. The Brazilian food recipe in this region is Afro-Bahrain that evolved from plantation improvising on Indian, traditional Portuguese and African dishes comprising of locally available ingredients.
The typical dishes of this region are and vatapá prepared from seafood and palm oil and acarajé which is a salted muffin prepared with onion, beans and fried palm oil. The main staple dish of this region is white rice with black beans but the other common dishes include pamonha, pacoca, farofa, canjica and quibebe.
The Brazilian food recipes in the rest of the coastal plains have lesser African influence but shellfish, seafood, tropical fruit and coconut are menu staples here.

Food recipes in Southeast Brazil: - This region is the industrial capital of Brazil and home to some distinctive Brazilian food recipes for which Brazil is best known. The regional dishes in Minas Gerais include beans, pork, chicken with okra and soft ripened cheeses. Feijoada is a dish that is very popular in Rio. This dish consists of black bean as well as meat stew and is well known as Saturday or Wednesday meal. Feijão com arroz i.e. rice and beans are also frequently used cuisines in southeast Brazil. The Brazilian food recipes of Sao Paulo show the influence of Middle Eastern and European immigrants. Pizza, sushi and pasta are very popular cuisines here. The other distinctive dishes consumed here are Farofa, moqueca, Capixaba, Polenta, tutu à mineira, chouriço etc.

Food recipes in South Brazil: - The cowboy of Pampa known as gaucho brought the national cuisine, the recipes of which consist of sun-dried meats with churrasco, the Brazilian counterpart of barbecue. The traditional food of this region is barraedo, boiled meat prepared in ceramic pans. Later on wine, dairy products, leafy vegetables were also introduced to the Brazilian food recipes.

Popularity of the Brazilian food recipes: - The Brazilian dishes are eaten in many European and Asian countries. Many immigrants from Europe, Africa and Asia took the Brazilian food recipes to other countries. These are the main reasons of the popularity of the Brazilian food recipes.