Traditional food

If you have a friend, a relative, or if you know anything about a Brazil/Brazilian you probably have tried some kind of Brazilian food or desserts. I am not the best person to say if it is good or bad since I love the Brazilian way to cook and the seasoning we use. In case you have tried it before, you probably went to a Brazilian Steakhouse to almost die if the amount of food and meat they serve, it actually never stops unless you ask them to. Also, the way the meat are cut and are prepared are close to perfection, the killer is the Top Sirloin, or Picanha in Portuguese, this is the Brazilian's favorite steak. If you have not yet gone to a Brazilian Steakhouse, go for it, it is amazing and definitely is worth it. As far as dessert the most popular one is the famous Brigadeiro, which is basically made of butter chocolate and sweetened condensed milk = amazing. Well if you have not tried any of these, I am sorry for you but let's talk about some traditional food in Brazil, that actually is difficult to find outside the country.

Picanha - Top Sirloin

As we talked before about the regions in Brazil, see post Brazil's regions, there are many differences in each one of them, and one of these differences are the traditional food. In fact, every state has its unique recipes and ways to cook their own traditional local plate. I am from a huge city of São Paulo, and as I also mentioned before it is a place with a great variety of people and tastes, but does not have a unique and nice typical food. Rio de Janeiro has Feijoada, very common in Brazilian's steakhouse here in the US, which is a mix of beans (but NOT sweet beans), Brazilians do not like sweet and salt together in the same meal, then it made of beans, pork sausage, pork meat, and seasoning, very popular and delicious, Minas Gerais are famous by its pão de queijo - cheese bread, queijo de minas - a type of cheese, and doce de leite - dulce de leche (it is actually a Spanish translation, but if you know that you would know by the Spanish version since there is not  a name for this dessert in English. North and Northeast part of Brazil have their plates mostly made from sea food. Region North has some interesting plates as Vatapá, made with shrimp and corn, Tacacá, made with shrimp and a sort of a sticky thing from a plant (this one is kind of weird), and Maniçoba, this one is like Feijoada, but instead of beans they use a leafs of a poisoning plant, since it is poisoning they need to cook it for seven long days.
Whatever place you visit in Brazil you will have, good and unique flavor and plates.

Brigadeiro