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Brazilian diet contains a tremendous variety, which includes the root vegetables like cassaca, peanuts and yams and fruits such as acai, mango, cupuacu, papaya, orange, guava, pineapple, passionfruit and hog plum. The famous pine nuts known as pinhao which is Brazil's national snack and even forms a major export, is a crop of southern Brazil. Rice, beans as well as fish, pork and beef are the traditional contents of a Brazilian meal.
Mouthwatering Brazilian Diet also contains some characteristic dishes like:
Caruru: This is made up of okra, dried shrimp, onion and roasted nuts like cashews and peanuts, by cooking them in palm oil till it thickens.
Feijoada: This is made up of beans and meat cooked on a low flame for quite some time to get soaked well.
Moqueca capixaba: This contains slow-cooked fish, onion, tomato and garlic with a topping of cilantro and chourico, which is a lightly spicy sausage.
In addition to this some finger foods like Salgadinhos, pasties, cheese bread and coxinha and dessert like milled tapioca are too, ingredients of the Brazilian diet.
The popular Brazilian native liquor cachaca is famous too.
In fact, Brazil is so diversified in its regions that not a single food item will represent the country as a whole. There is a variety of delicacies in the Brazilian diet.
For example, the food in the southern Brazil consists of sun or salt-dried meat, grilled meat called churrasco and Arroz Carreteiro which is a dish of rice and meat. The European intruders brought wine, leafy greens and dairy products into the Brazilian cuisine.
Whereas the southeast part of Brazil is famous for its meal consisting of the characteristic dish frango com quiabo, that is, 'chicken with okra' as well as the local soft traditional cheeses.
While in the northern region of Brazil, Pato no tucupi that is the 'duck in tucupi' is quite famous. This is a special dish prepared for the festival of Cirio de Nazare which is similar to Christmas and is celebrated in Pana, a part of northern Brazil. Tucupi is the yellow broth which is extracted from cassava. The duck is cooked and cut into pieces and then boiled in tucupi. It is eaten with white rice and manioc flour. Tacaca is another popular dish of the northern region which is made up of shrimp in tucupi, jambu and spices like garlic, pepper and chilli. This dish is sold on streets by vendors. Vatapa made from shrimp, alfacaca, chicory, garlic, wheat flour with or without rice, Manicoba, made of maniva leaf, charqui, fat, calf's foot jelly, ear, foot and salted pork ribs, sausages etc., and Caruru form a major part of the northern Brazilian diet.
The northeast region of Brazil has a food which contains vatapa, moqueca, and acaraje, which is a salted muffin made of white beans and onion fried in palm oil, stuffed with dried shrimp, red pepper and caruru.
The remaining part of the country is the sea coast, where seafood, shellfish and coconuts are abundantly included in the Mouth watering Brazilian Diet food.
Besides these, the Brazilian diet also consists of mouth-watering dishes like Pao de Queijo, a small soft roll of manioc floor and cheese, Kibe, a very popular Lebanese dish, Esfiha, pies or cakes stuffed with beef, cheese curd, mutton and vegetables, Empada, pot pies stuffed with palm hearts, flour, peas and chicken or shrimp, Cuscuz branco, a dessert made from milled tapioca cooked in coconut milk and sugar, and the bolos or cakes in a variety of forms.
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