Ingredients: – 2 onions – 4 garlics cloves – olive oil – pumpkin – 2 potatoes – chick peas – 2 l of water – fresh chives – salt – pepper 1- Finly chop the onions and the gralics and put in pan. Cook with olive oil, until golden. 2- Add the chopped pumpkin, the chopped potatoes…
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Pães de Queijo (Cheese Breads)
Ingredients: – 2 cups of starch – 1 cup of milk – 1 egg – 1 cup of vegetable milk – 150 gr of white cheese 1- Put the starch in the beater. Add milk, the egg and the vegetable oil. Whisk everything very well. 2- Divide the dough into small balls and put them on a…
Caipirinha (Caipirinha)
Ingredients: – 4 limes – crushed ice – 4 soup spoon of brown sugar – 2 cups of sugar cane brandy 1- Wash the limes with peel and cut into pieces. Distribute the pieces in appropriate glasses to Caipirinhas. Add a lot of crushed ice (until the edge of the glass) and ½ soup spoon of sugar by glass….
Batata Doce Frita (Fried Sweet Potato)
Ingredients: – 550 gr of sweet potato – vegetable oil – salt to taste 1- Peel, cut the potatoes into slices or sticks and wash them. 2- Fry them on very hot vegetable oil, as much as necessary to cover the potatoes. 3- In the end sprinkle with refined salt and serve. You can eat it as appetizer…
Caldo de Camarão (Shrimps Soup)
Ingredients: – 2 kg of shrimps – 1 kg of mature tomatoes – 1 onion – 2 garlic cloves – 1 kg of cassava – 0,5 kg of banana – 1 kg of potatoes – 0,5 dl of olive oil – 3 coffee spoons of chili – salt to taste 1- Cook the shrimps in water…
Mandioca Frita (Fried Cassava)
Ingredients: – ½ kg of cassava flour – 1 cup of fresh grated coconut – sugar to taste – ½ tea spoon of salt – 2 seeds of cardamom – ¼ tea spoon of fennel – oil to fry 1- Boil ½ L of water and make a hard dough with the cassava flour, coconut, sugar, cardamom and fennel. 2- Stir…
Abóbora Refogada (Fried Pumpkin)
Ingredients: – 4 pumpkins – 2 soup spoons of oil – 1 garlic clove chopped – ½ onion chopped – salt and pepper 1- Peel the pumpkins and cut them into cubes of middle size. 2- Heat the oil and fry the garlic and the onion. Add the pumpkin cubes and stir it well until shred. 3- Spice with…
Fritos de Banana (Fried Banana)
Ingredients: – bananas – vegetable oil – cinnamon – sugar 1- Put a frying pan on the heat with oil. Peel the bananas and chop them. 2- When the oil is hot enough add the bananas and fry them until darken. Don’t forget to turn them over. 3- When it’s finished put the bananas on a dish and…
Fofos de Arroz (Breaded Shrimps in Rice Balls)
Ingredients: – 200 gr of rice – 2 yolks – 1 onion – shrimps – chopped parsley – 1 garlic clove – 1 bay leaf – grated bread – salt and chili 1- Cook the rice with salted water and staunch it. 2- When it’s cold add the yolks, the chopped parsley, salt and the chopped…