“Arroz de festa” or “arroz com passas” (raisins) is white rice, sweeter and tastier, cooked with raisins and white wine. It’s a side dish for Christmas turkey, smoked ham, baked fish and roasts, in special occasions such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Ingredients• 500…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO The baked rice is a great side dish to accompany meat, poultry or fish. It is a great way to use up leftover cooked rice, such as rice croquette recipe, and it is really easy and quick to cook.…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO “Arroz doce” is also a Portuguese recipe. It may be served as a dessert or as a snack, and it’s a traditional “festas juninas” (June festivities which coincide with the corn harvest) dish, celebrating St. Anthony’s, St. Peter’s and…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO There are so many salt dried cod recipes in Brazil, arrived with immigrants from all over the world. This one is my maternal (portuguese) grandmother’s recipe.It is good practice to reserve apart the cod’s boiled water to cook the…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO “Baião de dois” is a classic dish from Northeast Brazil. The recipe comes from the state of Ceará, but can be found all over Brazil, and there are innumerable variations for it.The curious name of this recipe is an…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Cachaça gumdrops are jelly candies with a slight hint of cachaça, covered with a thin layer of sugar. It is an unusual candy for dessert, loved by everyone who ate it. It’s also a great snack choice to sweeten…
This is a great side dish for a lot of Brazilian recipes and also for “feijoada”. The contrast between the crisp crust on the outside and the soft and sweet banana inside – sweet as well as salty – is very popular in Brazil. Ingredients•…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO The “banana da terra” (plantains) is a variety of banana that must be cooked before eating. It’s better when fully ripe, ie, when it becomes soft, the skin gets very dark and the pulp reddish. The plantains can be…
“Sabor Brasil” is now a book with hundreds of traditional recipes interspersed with tales and stories in a fascinating journey through knowledge and taste.
Besides illustrating ingredients and culinary procedures, it tells the story of recipe origins, often linked to a specific geographical area and the influence of cultures that come from afar. It tells how food is perceived by the Brazilian people and describes both the places where it is eaten and the rituals that accompany it.
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I’m an architect. I was born in Brazil and my father was Italian.
“Eating well” is a heritage of Humanity. With this site I wish to share my passion for cooking. For every recipe, I’ve tried to use simple and traditional ingredients and not complicated working procedures. All recipes have been “tested and approved” by my Italian friends.
Fernanda Bocconi