Here in Brazil we have many tradicional food, some salty and some sweet. These food are so good that foreigners are often left wondering why on Earth they don't exist elsewhere.

So, on this topic I'm going to list a few of them. Ready?


What is it: Little raindrops of fried goodness usually filled with chicken and a very creamy cheese called “catupiry.”
Tastes like: A fried mac ‘n’ cheese ball, sans noodles, plus chicken.


What is it: Chocolate truffles made with condensed milk instead of cream and covered in chocolate sprinkles.
Tastes like: A Nutella ball sprinkled with chocolate.


What is it: Little rolls of bread with cheese baked into it.
Tastes like: Yup, little rolls of bread with cheese baked into it.


What is it: Pinto beans sautéed with cassava flour, scallions, egg, and bacon.
Tastes like: Someone put eggs and bacon in your beans.


What is it: A superfood berry used to make fruit bowls and smoothies. Pro tip: Blend with bananas and strawberries and top with granola and honey.
Tastes like: A granola bowl, sans yogurt, plus berry goodness.


What it is: More fried goodness but this time with less dough, which you can fill with everything from cheese, to beef, to cod fish, and pretty much whatever else your stomach desires.
Tastes like: A deep-fried empanada.


What is it: A black bean stew with various types of beef and sausage.
Tastes like: A hearty black bean chili.


What is it: Little balls of glorious fried dough sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
Tastes like: Cinnamon doughnut holes.


What is it: A shrimp stew cooked in coconut milk and palm oil. Add veggies such as peppers and tomatoes to complete.
Tastes like: Clam chowder if it were cooked in coconut milk, minus the clams, plus the fish…and the vegetables.


What is it: Coconut truffles.
Tastes like: A coconut explosion.


What is it: A spicy cream of fish and shrimp dish cooked in peanut sauce.
Tastes like: A thick shrimp curry, kind of.


What is it: A black-eyed pea ball fried in palm oil, usually stuffed with shrimp and vinaigrette.
Tastes like: A stuffed shrimp falafel.

What is it: A baked dessert made of egg yolks, sugar, and ground coconut flakes.
Tastes like: A coconut flan.


What is it: The Caipirinha is a rustic form of a Daiquiri: just rum, sugar, and lime. But the rum is cachaça, the sugar is usually raw or turbinado, and the limes are muddled and left in the drink.
Tastes like: a Daiquiri with cachaça instead of rum.

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0.0 Why do I not live in Brazil? This is yummy!

I KNOW, RIGHT???

I have a friend from Chicago - though she currently lives in DC - and she spent six months here. She gained 10 pounds. She got addicted to pastéis and wanted to get the recipe so she could open a restaurant that would sell only pastéis in Chicago LOL.

bump just to say I'm eating Pão de Queijo LOL

Some of these def. look nommy damn

Coxinhas sound good, they look like Cheese curds

LOL, i LOVE coxinhas *-*

oh my goodness look at those noms.

Bolinho de chuva, Brigadeiro, coxinhas, Pão de Queijo, pastel, and Feijoada looks soo yummy.


are there any traditional foods for the holidays or carnival.


i know tamales are big for hispanic cultures, so I wonder if in Brazil they have anything like that.

for carnival, we normally drink more. and our most well-known food and drink are feijoada and caipirinha (which can be done with vodka instead of cachaça - and i prefer with vodka lol)

Everything looks sooooooo good! I hope I'll have the chance to try it one day.

The food looks delicious...never had Brazilian food. I recall having a local Brazilian restaurant where they may serve some of this.

If you want, you can look for recipes of these food, so you can do it at home as well! =)

The food looks amazing!!! I went to a Brazilian restaurant and they served Feijoada as a side dish (I didnt know it was called like that... I thought it was just beans xD) and they were delicious!!! In that restaurant they serve food in a way I haven't seen before, they call it 'Rodizio' is it common in Brazil to do that 'all you can eat'??

Yeah! Rodízio is very common here! You pay once and the waiter comes with the food - normally barbecue - and you choose which meat you want. I seldom go to these places, but it's mainly because I don't like barbecue LOL

OhmiGOD Mi this all looks AMAZING. Well, I don't like shrimps so if we skipped them I would literally devour everything else in two seconds. I will say your food doesn't look the healthiest so I can understand why you said that girl put on ten pounds - I'd wanna eat all that all the time..! *-*

Sailor Jupiter wrote:

OhmiGOD Mi this all looks AMAZING. Well, I don't like shrimps so if we skipped them I would literally devour everything else in two seconds. I will say your food doesn't look the healthiest so I can understand why you said that girl put on ten pounds - I'd wanna eat all that all the time..! *-*

well, I'm allergic to sea food, so I can't eat any of the shrimp-plates. But yeah, they're just so yummy, right? I love to start the day with pão de queijo, but I can pretty much eat it any time of the day.

OMG ALL THE SHRIMP GIMME GIMME   Shrimp is literally my favorite seafood xD But everything here looks good   :bunnynosebleed