Brazilian Food

By Food & Wine
Updated April 27, 2017
Here are our favorite Brazilian recipes including Brazilian black rice, Brazilian shrimp soup and Brazilian beer-marinated chicken.
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Bahia-Style Shrimp in Coconut Sauce

Credit: © MAURA MCEVOY
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The rich coconut sauce in this rustic seafood dish is typical of recipes from Brazil's tropical seaside state of Bahia.

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Brazilian Chicken Stew

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Brazilian Collard Greens

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If you think collards need to cook a long time to be tender, think again. Slice the greens paper thin and they'll be ready in just minutes.

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Brazilian Black Rice

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This dish from Uxua hotel chef Aladim Alves traces its roots to the 1970s, when the beaches of Trancoso, Brazil, were a favorite hippie destination. It combines richly flavored Bahian seafood with healthy whole-grain black rice.

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Sausage-Stuffed Brazilian Cheese Breads (Pao de Queijo)

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Pao de queijo is a traditional Brazilian cheese bread made from sour tapioca flour. If you can't find the sour version, you can substitute regular tapioca flour. This recipe includes browned pork sausage that's mixed into the rolls. Cut them in half and fill with a fried egg for a perfect mini breakfast sandwich.

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Brazilian Rich Chocolate Truffles

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These chewy, sprinkles-coated balls (called brigadeiros in Portuguese) are more like chocolate caramels than French-style truffles.

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Brazilian Fish, Shrimp and Mussel Stew

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Andrew Zimmern's seafood stew is brothy and delicious: the secret ingredient is cashew butter.

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Brazilian Shrimp Soup

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Coconut milk's rich flavor will keep you coming back for more of this substantial soup. A true Brazilian version would include slices of okra, but ours is already so satisfyingly thick that we left it out.

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Brazilian Seafood Soup (Moqueca)

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This tangy, buttery, gorgeous soup--bright red with dende oil--is Daniel Boulud's riff on a recipe by French chef Claude Troisgros.

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Grilled Chicken with Spicy Brazilian Tomato and Coconut Sauce

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Redolent of ginger and jalapenos, the tomato sauce is a lively addition to plain grilled chicken. If you like less heat, use only one jalapeno.

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Brazilian Beer-Marinated Chicken

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Steven Raichlen flavors this speedy chicken dish with Xingu (a Brazilian black lager that has a distinctive colalike flavor), plus mustard and onion--evoking the classic combination of beer and bratwursts. "The marinade brings a lot of flavor to a meat that really needs it," he says.

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