List of Brazilian dishes
This is a list of dishes found in Brazilian cuisine. Brazilian cuisine was developed from Portuguese, African, Native American, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and German influences. It varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's mix of native and immigrant populations, and its continental size as well. This has created a national cuisine marked by the preservation of regional differences. Brazil is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population, with over 202,000,000 people.
Appetizers
Additional appetizer dishes
- Azul Marinho
- Brote
- Canudinho
- Cartola
- Cocorote
- Espetinho
- Encapotado
- Folhado
- Filós
- Joelho
- Pão de frios
- Pão sapecado
- Little rolls
- Mariola
- Mentira
- Mexido
- Pé-de-Moça
- Quebra-queixo
- Queijo do Reino
- Queijo manteiga
- Sequilho
- Broinha
- Sobá
- Sorda
Main courses or entrées
Additional main course dishes
- Afogado
- Arroz de hauçá
- Baião de dois
- Banana angu
- Barreado
- Bogged cow
- Buchada de bode
- Caribéu
- Carneiro no buraco
- Carreteiro rice
- Cashew soup
- Chica doida
- Coconut fava
- Costela no bafo
- Cozido com pirão
- Cuxá
- Escondidinho
- Estrogonofe
- Frango à passarinho
- Frango com quiabo
- Frango de cabidela
- Fubá suado
- Galinha cheia
- Gamba de couve
- Gembê
- Leitão maturado
- Lelê
- Maria-isabel
- Milk rice
- MIninico
- Mojica
- Mujeca
- Muma de siri
- Oven rice
- Panelada
- Party rice
- Paxicá
- Peixada catarinense
- Peixe na telha
- Picadinho
- Picado
- Piranha soup
- Pirão
- Pirarucu de casaca
- Porco no rolete
- Pururuca
- Quarenta
- Quinhapira
- Quirera com suã
- Rabada
- Rubacão
- Sarrabulho
- Shrimp pumpkin
- Sururu
- Tropeiro beans
- Tutoo
- Xerém
- Xinxim de galinha
• Canjica
• Mungunzá
• Bolo de milho
• Pamonha
• Bolo de mandioca
• Cuscuz com charque
• Curau de milho
• Paçoquinha de colher
• Pé de moleque
• Bolo Souza Leão
• Quindim
• Arroz Doce
• Cocada
• Maria mole
• Queijadinha
• Tapioca de coco
• Quebra queixo
• Doce de abóbora
• Doce de batata doce
• Quentão
Sweets
| Name | Image | Description |
| Beijinho | Beijinho is a typical Brazilian birthday party candy prepared with condensed milk and grated desiccated coconut or milk powder. It's the coconut version of the Brazilian brigadeiro. When rolled, it can be covered with granulated sugar or grated coconut. Traditionally a single dried clove is stuck in the top of the candy. | |
| Brigadeiro | Brigadeiro is a simple Brazilian chocolate bonbon usually served at birthday parties and also as dessert, made by mixing sweetened condensed milk, butter and cocoa powder together, covered in granulated chocolate. | |
| Doce de leite | A traditional Latin American sweet made of milk and sugar. It can be consumed as a thick spread or as a solid cut into cubes. | |
| Mousse de maracujá | A mousse made with passion fruit pulp and seeds. | |
| Paçoca | It's the name of two very different Brazilian foods. In Northeastern Brazil, especially in Fortaleza, Ceará, and in Rio Grande do Norte, paçoca is the name of a dish made of carne de sol, cassava flour and red onions, ground together in a mortar. In other regions of Brazil, paçoca is actually a candy made of ground peanuts and sugar pressed together. | |
| Pamonha | A traditional Brazilian food, it's a paste made from fresh corn and milk, boiled wrapped in corn husks, turned into a dumpling. Variations include pamonha de milho and pamonha de carimã, and some variants use coconut milk. | |
| Pé-de-moleque | Peanut brittle is a traditional candy made of mixing roasted, peeled or macerated peanuts with melted brown sugar, jaggery, molasses or rapadura. | |
| Pudim | Milk pudding, egg pudding, or flan—this custard dessert with caramel sauce is commonly prepared in Brazil. | |
| Quindim | Quindim is a Brazilian baked custard made chiefly from sugar, egg yolks and ground coconut. | |
| Rabanada | A sweet version of French toast, covered with sugar and powdered cinnamon. It is usually served at Christmas. | |
| Romeu e Julieta | "Romeo and Juliet"—Minas cheese with goiabada | |
| Sweet rice | Brazilian sweet rice or rice pudding is prepared with milk, sometimes coconut milk, sugar, condensed milk, and cinnamon. | |
| Tareco | A tough biscuit, make of wheat flour, eggs and sugar; that, when put into the oven, cook into a disk shape. |