Sequilhos de Maizena are biscuits made with corn starch. They are very dry and crumbly, and so easy and quick to make. This biscuits tastes better after a few days. Ingredients • 600 g corn starch • 300 ml sweetened condensed milk • 1 egg •…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO The chickpea and pasta soup is a winter recipe in the south of Brazil. It is a variation of meats and vegetables stew recipes brought to Brazil by Portuguese, Spanish and Italian immigrants. This soup can be enriched…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO This creamy soup is a classic Brazilian housewife recipe, really quick and easy to make – refined and just delicious – made with arracacha, a typical South American ingredient. We hope will soon be available in Italy! There…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO This delicious juice is a homemade recipe at practically zero cost and practically effortless to make: a cheap recipe that wastes nothing, a real comfort food. Pineapple is a typically tropical fruit, and it is said that its skin,…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Watermelon is a very common fruit in Italy as in Brazil, but the juice, in Italy, remains virtually unknown. Don’t miss it … try it! Ingredients • watermelon (about 250 g for a large glass) • sugar, if…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO The grape juice is a delicious and healthy beverage, and it is one of the most popular juices in Brazil. In recent years it grew more than the others grape products, has shown positive export growth and it…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO “Tender” is a small boneless fully cooked ham. It is traditional Christmas and New Year’s Eve recipe, especially in cities, where foreign influence is very strong. Spices, fresh and canned fruit are commonly used to flavour the ham,…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO The “Key Lime Pie” is a world-famous recipe. It was first made in the Florida Keys during 19th century famine, at the end of the American Civil War. This recipe was a peasant dish made with the few…
“Sabor Brasil” is now a book with hundreds of traditional recipes interspersed with tales and stories in a fascinating journey through knowledge and taste.
Besides illustrating ingredients and culinary procedures, it tells the story of recipe origins, often linked to a specific geographical area and the influence of cultures that come from afar. It tells how food is perceived by the Brazilian people and describes both the places where it is eaten and the rituals that accompany it.
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This is a practical handbook created to familiarize yourselves with the Brazilian language and the melting-pot culture of Latin America’s largest country.
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I’m an architect. I was born in Brazil and my father was Italian.
“Eating well” is a heritage of Humanity. With this site I wish to share my passion for cooking. For every recipe, I’ve tried to use simple and traditional ingredients and not complicated working procedures. All recipes have been “tested and approved” by my Italian friends.
Fernanda Bocconi