Brazilian Dishes

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 25 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 567 ratings

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The one dish everyone searches for, and 567 ratings make it the most-validated Brazilian recipe here by a distance. There is no gluten in it at all: the chew comes from tapioca starch gelatinised by hot liquid before the eggs go in, which is why the batter is poured rather than kneaded.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 180 ratings

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4.8 across 180 — the best-evidenced Brazilian main added this round. Coconut milk where an Italian would reach for more butter, which is the whole northeastern argument in one dish, and no stirring at any point.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 120 ratings

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4.7 across 120, the most-rated Brazilian sweet added this round. Ten minutes of hands-on for ten slices, and it is the chocolate cake a Brazilian actually grew up with rather than the one a British bakery sells.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 97 ratings

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The most-rated Brazilian sweet here, at 97. Five minutes of work and four hours of waiting. It bakes in a water bath rather than dry heat, and that is what keeps the custard smooth — direct heat sets the outside into bubbles before the middle has thickened at all.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 90 ratings

Devices

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4.5 across 90, in three collections, ten minutes of work. Different from the banana bread already on the vegetarian page — this is a cake to cut into twelve, not a loaf to slice for toast.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 20 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 89 ratings

Devices

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Not the Russian dish and not trying to be: tomato, cream and matchstick potatoes on top. It appears in six Cookidoo collections, which is a fair measure of how standard it is in Brazil. The cream goes in off the heat — boiled it splits, and the tomato's acid makes that likelier.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 87 ratings

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4.7 across 87 and forty-five minutes. It sets somewhere between a cake and a pudding, which is the point of it and the reason it is not the bolo de milho com coco already here.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 45 min total · ~1 h hands-on · 32 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 78 ratings

Devices

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The most-rated Brazilian recipe on the platform, and the one people search for. The hour of hands-on is shaping: a scalded dough has to be worked while it is still uncomfortably hot, because it stiffens as it cools and then will not take the teardrop.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 15 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 24 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 77 ratings

Devices

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A party staple, 77 ratings. The two hours is cooling, and it is not slack time: the mixture has to be cooked until it pulls away from the pan in one mass and then chilled hard, or it will not hold a shape between your palms.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 71 ratings

Devices

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4.7 across 71. Named for what the grated chocolate looks like through the crumb, which is the kind of name only a children's birthday cake earns and keeps.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 69 ratings

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Kept alongside the coconut-milk one above rather than instead of it: this is the parmesan-and-butter reading, that one is the northeastern reading, and they taste nothing like each other. 4.6 across 69.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 45 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 8 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 69 ratings

Devices

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4.6 across 69 and it appears in four collections including 15 Anos de Thermomix® Brasil. The torta de liquidificador is how Brazil does a weeknight pie — the batter is poured, not rolled, and twenty minutes of that hour and three-quarters is yours.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 10 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 57 ratings

Devices

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Italian in name and wholly Brazilian in practice — the dish a Brazilian restaurant gets judged on. 4.8 across 57. The chicken is fried before it is sauced and cheesed, and the order is the recipe: crumb that goes into the oven already crisp survives the sauce, crumb that does not turns to paste.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 20 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 56 ratings

Devices

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4.8 across 56 and it appears in three Brazilian collections including the fifteen-year anniversary one. Twenty portions from a single run, wrapped and eaten cold — festa food that improves for being made the day before.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 50 ratings

Devices

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4.4 across 50. Canja is what a Brazilian household makes for someone who is unwell, and it is the closest thing the country has to a national remedy. Ten minutes of hands-on for the better part of an hour.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 49 ratings

Devices

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Thirty minutes, 4.8, and about three ingredients' worth of effort. Passion fruit is acidic enough to thicken cream on contact, so the mousse is essentially made the moment the two meet — which is why it needs no cooking and barely any whisking.

Time, yield and difficulty

13 h 20 min total · ~1 h 10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 46 ratings

Devices

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The baseline of Brazilian eating; everything else assumes it is already on the plate. The long total is the beans soaking overnight, which shortens the cook and — more to the point — is what lets them come out whole rather than split.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 50 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 600 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 46 ratings

Devices

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Five minutes of work and nearly three hours of leaving it alone. What happens in those three hours is browning rather than boiling — milk sugars and proteins colouring slowly — which is where the flavour comes from and why hurrying it gives you sweetened milk instead of caramel.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 43 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The side no Brazilian table lacks and no British one has. Vegan if you leave the bacon out. It is toasting and nothing else: cassava flour taken to the colour of sand, which is the whole difference between farofa and a bowl of raw flour — and it burns in the last thirty seconds.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 20 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 40 ratings

Devices

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Lebanese by descent and Brazilian by adoption: everyday food there, unknown here. Baked rather than fried, so it feeds eight without a pan of oil. The bulgur is soaked rather than cooked — it takes up water and stays in grains, and that is what holds the loaf together.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 37 ratings

Devices

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Twenty-five minutes, and the blending decides whether this is silky or grainy — fresh corn keeps its hulls, and only a machine gets past them. A Brazilian table staple with no British equivalent.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 2.9 from 33 ratings

Devices

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The June-festival corn pudding, and the second-worst-rated Brazilian recipe here at 2.9 from 33. It is included because the dish is a fixture and nothing else covers it. It sets on the corn's own starch rather than on egg or gelatine, which is also why it is unforgiving: under-cook it and it never firms at all.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 33 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The machine solves the one thing people hate about polenta. That stirring is not tradition for its own sake: cornmeal dropped into hot liquid and left alone sets into lumps that never come apart again, and forty minutes of constant motion is exactly the sort of job to hand to something else.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 30 min total · ~50 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 32 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

One pot, weeknight-shaped, and the most-rated Brazilian main here. The rice goes in after the chicken has browned and cooks in what came off it — that is the entire point of the dish, and it is why it cannot be assembled from two things cooked separately.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 28 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Twenty minutes, 4.8, naturally vegan, and the ideal first Brazilian recipe for a sceptic. The fine shred is the dish: cut thin enough, collard greens cook in the time it takes the garlic to colour, and they stay green rather than going grey.

Time, yield and difficulty

13 h 35 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 27 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Hominy pudding, made for the June festivals. The overnight soak is not optional the way most soaks are: treated hominy is a hard, dry corn that will not soften in any reasonable cooking time without it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 25 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 15 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 27 ratings

Devices

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A padaria classic, well rated. Potato in a bread dough holds water that flour cannot, which is why these stay soft for days where a plain roll is stale by morning — and why the dough is stickier to handle than it looks like it ought to be.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 25 ratings

Devices

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A strong rating, under an hour, and spectacular to serve — the best single entry point for somebody who has never cooked Brazilian food. The fish goes in last and barely cooks: the pot is already hot enough to finish it, and any longer turns it to flakes in a coconut soup.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 20 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 25 ratings

Devices

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A perfect score across 25 — the standout of the whole set — in fifteen minutes. It is ground peanuts and sugar pressed together, held by nothing but the nut's own oil, which is exactly why the grind has to stop at crumbs: taken as far as butter, there is nothing left to press.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 20 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 24 ratings

Devices

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Prawn and cassava, and the purée is where the machine earns its keep. Bobó is defined by a texture — thick and glossy rather than a stew with lumps in it — and reaching that by hand means pushing cooked cassava through a sieve.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 600 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 24 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Fifteen minutes for the thing that goes on every Brazilian barbecue and most of the beans. Naturally vegan, and it keeps. The cut is the recipe: this is a relish rather than a salsa, so everything wants to be small, even and chopped rather than blended.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 10 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 23 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Cornmeal and guava, the pairing the old Captain Bruk shop sold. The yoghurt is doing structural work rather than flavour: cornmeal brings no gluten to hold a crumb together, and the acid and fat are what keep the cake from being sandy.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min · 10 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 23 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.9 across 23, the best-rated thing in this batch. Tapioca is the one Brazilian staple with no British analogue at all — not a pancake, not a crêpe, and it sets from plain cassava starch with nothing added to bind it.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h 35 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 22 ratings

Devices

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4.1 across 22. Manjar branco is the dessert every Brazilian restaurant has and no British one does, and the prune sauce is not optional decoration — the dish is built around the contrast.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 22 ratings

Devices

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4.5 across 22, and it turns up in the Brazilian Christmas collection because that is exactly where it belongs — no Brazilian festive table lacks it, and no British one has ever seen it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 21 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.2 across 21, and vegan without adjustment — rare among Brazilian sweets, which run on condensed milk almost without exception. A Festa Junina fixture.

Time, yield and difficulty

3 h 15 min total · ~1 h 5 min hands-on · 16 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 3.8 from 20 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Saturday market food, and the dough is the whole reason to do it in the machine. The 3.8 is honest — this is a project rather than a weeknight. The pastry wants to be rolled thin and fried hot enough to blister, because a pastel that cooks slowly absorbs the oil instead of puffing away from it.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Pão de mel usually means fiddly individual domes; this is the same spiced honey batter baked as one cake, five minutes of hands-on for twelve pieces. Honey holds water in a way sugar does not, which is why it stays moist for days — and why this is vegetarian rather than vegan.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 30 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 44 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 2.9 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A birthday-party fixture in Brazil, and the worst-rated Brazilian recipe in this index at 2.9 from eighteen. The shaping is where the afternoon goes — forty-four of them, one at a time, each pinched to a cashew-fruit curve. Read the ratings before committing to that.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 40 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cassava cheese bread, forty of them in half an hour. There is no gluten in it, so nothing behaves like dough: the chew comes from cheese and from cassava starch gelatinising in the oven, which is why the texture is unlike any bread made of wheat.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 30 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 250 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 18 ratings

Devices

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4.0 across 18, five minutes of hands-on. Worth making before anything else here: two of the recipes added alongside it are built on requeijão, and it is not a thing a British supermarket sells under any name.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 4 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 17 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across 17 — the best-evidenced perfect score in this batch. Ten minutes, vegan, and the suco is a course in Brazil rather than a thing you buy in a carton.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 25 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 14 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.9, and five minutes of hands-on for twelve. Corn and coconut is the pairing Brazilian baking is built on. The batter is blended rather than folded, which breaks the corn down far enough for the cake to set smooth instead of grainy.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 13 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The highest-rated Brazilian main in the index, and forty minutes start to finish — a Rio lunch-counter staple almost nobody outside Brazil cooks. Small dice is the whole idea: cut fine enough, beef reaches tenderness in a stew's opening act rather than after two hours of it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 55 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 12 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The highest-rated Brazilian main in the set. The mash is cassava rather than potato and behaves differently: cassava turns glutinous if it is worked hard, so it wants bringing together rather than beating.

Time, yield and difficulty

13 h 25 min total · ~1 h hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.1 from 12 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The national dish, and the weakest rating in this index at 3.1 from twelve — worth cooking and judging for yourself rather than assuming. The thirteen hours is an overnight bean soak and the hour is yours; the salted cuts need a soak of their own, or they season the whole pot past edible.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 30 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 11 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Thirty in an hour, vegetarian, and they travel. Short pastry wants to be handled as little and as cold as possible — worked warm, the fat melts into the flour instead of sitting in it, and short turns to tough.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 10 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A perfect score, though only across ten. Carne de panela is Sunday food that survives being made on a Tuesday, and the machine builds the purée in the same run rather than in a second pan.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 25 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.8 from 10 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

São Paulo's savoury cuscuz, moulded and turned out whole — a different dish from the northeastern cuscuz de carne seca also here. Steam rather than boiling is what lets it turn out in one piece: the grain swells without ever getting wet enough to slump. Rated 3.8 from ten, so treat the seasoning as yours to set.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 50 min total · ~35 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 8 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The Brazilian snack-bar potato — baked, split, loaded and put back under heat. 4.9, but from only eight ratings. The second pass of heat is the point of the method: it re-crisps the skin that the filling has just softened.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 40 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 8 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The unexpected one — sweetcorn where the chocolate usually is. It needs longer over the heat than a chocolate brigadeiro because the corn brings water with it, and under-cooking is what leaves you with a bowl of something that will not roll.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 25 min total · ~1 h 10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 2.6 from 8 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

2.6 across 8 — the worst-rated recipe added this round, and it is listed so you know rather than so you cook it. The dish is a Christmas-table fixture in Brazil and nothing else on the platform covers it; the score is a warning, not a formality. Also the most hands-on thing here at seventy minutes.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 8 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across eight, vegan as written, twenty-five minutes. The shredding is the job the machine takes off you, and red cabbage by hand is the reason most people never make this.

Time, yield and difficulty

12 h 40 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Iconic Bahian street food, and the twelve hours on the clock is the peas softening overnight — the evening itself is half an hour. What decides the result is how far the soaked peas are worked before they meet the oil: taken far enough they whip to a batter that traps air and fries hollow and light, stopped short and they fry dense. That whipping is the one job here that is genuinely hard by hand.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score, though from only seven. Bahian coastal food that turns up as a starter across Brazil and essentially nowhere here. The shell is a cooking vessel rather than a flourish: shallow and wide, so the top browns before the crab inside overcooks.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Coconut and sugar, and the machine does the stirring that makes people give up. That stirring has a job: sugar cooked to the right point and then agitated sets grainy and sliceable, which is what a cocada is. Left alone, it stays a syrup.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Açaí sorbet in fifteen minutes, worked from frozen pulp straight to a scoopable texture. Nothing is churned and nothing is allowed to melt, which is also why it wants eating more or less immediately: refrozen, it sets to a block.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 8 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Seven ratings, so the 4.7 is thin. It is here for the pairing rather than the score: cheese against guava is Romeu e Julieta, the flavour combination the old Captain Bruk shop sold as two separate jars. The five hours is setting.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 400 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 6 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Condensed milk from scratch in fifteen minutes, and it unlocks half the sweets on this page. It is water being driven off under controlled heat: too fast and the milk catches and tastes of it, which is why holding the temperature matters more than watching the clock.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 20 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 6 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A coconut-cheese sweet, twenty of them in half an hour. It sets on egg rather than on reduction, so unlike most of the sweets on this page it is a baking job with a real finish point — and it goes dry a couple of minutes past it.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 12 slices · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A Pernambucan roll cake, and one of only two advanced recipes here. The difficulty is entirely in a sponge thin enough to roll without cracking: thin bakes in a couple of minutes and burns in three, so this one wants your attention at the oven rather than at the bowl.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 35 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Thirty-five of them in fifteen minutes. The dried fruit and nuts go in after the cooking rather than during it: anything with structure that is stirred through hot condensed milk softens into the background instead of standing out against it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 10 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A perfect score, from five ratings. Bahian, okra-based, and almost unknown outside Brazil. Okra's reputation for sliminess is a cooking problem rather than a property — it wants heat and acid early — and the nuts here are doing thickening work that would otherwise fall to the okra.

Time, yield and difficulty

3 h 10 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 60 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A modern Brazilian bar snack, sixty at a time, and it sets overnight — which makes it batch-friendly rather than slow. The setting is the recipe: the mixture has to be properly cold and firm before it is cut, or the cubes lose their edges in the pan.

Time, yield and difficulty

13 h 15 min total · ~1 h 10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A mineiro staple that adapts to vegetarian readily. The beans are cooked and then dried off before the flour goes anywhere near them: anything still wet turns farofa to paste, which is the one way this dish goes wrong.

Time, yield and difficulty

35 min · 400 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The old Captain Bruk blog published a pepper jam in 2017, so this is direct continuity. A jelly sets on sugar concentration alone, which makes the finish a judgement by eye rather than by clock: pulled early it stays syrup, pushed far it goes to toffee.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Five ratings only. It is here for the same reason the condensed milk is: two ingredients, five minutes, and it unlocks a whole column of the Brazilian page rather than being a dish in itself.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 250 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Ten minutes for the sauce that goes with every fried thing on the Brazilian page. Five ratings, all of them five. The chopped elements go in after the emulsion is made — added early they release water into it and thin the whole thing out.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across five, which is thin. Listed because Brazil's Levantine inheritance is real food rather than a footnote — this is what the kibe assado already on this page is eaten with, and it is vegan as written.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Five ratings only, so read the 4.2 lightly. It is here for the mandioquinha — the root Brazil calls batata baroa and Britain has no name for at all, and which makes a purée sweeter and finer than any potato manages.

Time, yield and difficulty

35 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A bean purée thickened with cassava flour, and a natural vegetarian conversion. The flour goes in slowly at the end: added all at once it seizes into lumps that will not blend out, which is the one way this goes wrong.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 4 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Four ratings at 4.0 — the least Brazilian-looking thing in this batch, and it sits in two Brazilian collections because South American grain salads are not a health-food import there. Contains honey, so vegetarian rather than vegan.

Time, yield and difficulty

8 h 50 min total · ~35 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 4 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Four ratings, so treat the 4.8 as a hint rather than a finding. Sweetcorn as a dessert flavour is the single hardest Brazilian idea to sell to a British palate, and the one most worth trying. Nearly nine hours, of which thirty-five minutes is work.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Lemongrass, and made to be spooned rather than rolled — which is the easier half of the family, because a spoon brigadeiro only has to be cooked until it thickens, not until it will hold a ball. Three ratings, so the score means little; the flavour is why it is here.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 10 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Three ratings only. Ten minutes from start to ten portions, which is the machine doing the one trick it does better than any other appliance — frozen fruit and dairy into ice cream without an ice cream maker.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 35 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Three ratings is not evidence and the 4.3 should be read as such. It earns its place on the pairing: plantain fried alongside white fish is coastal Brazilian cooking in one plate, and banana da terra is not the banana a British shopper will reach for by default.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The other advanced one, and a festa junina centrepiece. The husks are the cooking vessel rather than the packaging: they hold a loose corn paste together while it steams and sets, and nothing else does both jobs at once.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Three ratings. The interest is the dressing: yoghurt instead of the maionese that Brazilian potato salad almost always drowns in, which makes it a side rather than a second main.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 8 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.5 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Here for completeness and weakly rated, on two ratings that prove nothing either way. The one technical point worth having: it is the sugar crushed against the peel that pulls the oil out of it, and that oil is most of what you taste.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 35 min total · ~25 min hands-on · 8 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Northeastern, barely known in the UK, and real discovery cooking. Salt-cured beef has to be soaked before it can be cooked with — otherwise the salt that preserved it is the only thing you taste — and that soak is most of the time on the clock.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A churrasco staple with no UK equivalent — closer to a garlic-buttered roll finished over fire than to anything from a freezer. Two ratings only. The garlic goes on before the final heat so it cooks into the bread rather than sitting on top of it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 35 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Two ratings, both five, which proves nothing and is said plainly. A mineiro bakery bread with crackling worked through it, and there is no British equivalent to compare it against.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Bright yellow, glassy on top, and one of the few Brazilian sweets with no equivalent here at all. Two ratings, so the dish is a certainty and this particular version is not. The gloss is the yolk separating out and settling as it bakes, which is why it is turned out upside down.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 40 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 1 rating

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

An Amazonian fruit related to cacao that almost nobody in the UK has tasted. One rating proves nothing; it is here because the flavour has no substitute. The two and a half hours is setting, and it sets on the fruit's own acid meeting dairy rather than on gelatine.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 h 10 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 10 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 1 rating

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

One rating. That is not evidence and it is not presented as any. Listed because the picolé is Brazilian street summer in one object, it is vegan, and five of the five hours is the freezer.

Time, yield and difficulty

8 h 50 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 1 rating

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cassava in an ice cream sounds wrong and is not. A single five-star rating is not evidence of anything; it is here because the idea is worth trying. The long total is freezing, and the cooked cassava is doing a custard's job — it is starch, so it keeps the texture soft without any eggs.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 15 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 0.0 from 0 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

No ratings at all — nobody on the platform has scored it, and that is stated rather than dressed up. It is here because the dish matters: Rio's answer to bouillabaisse, invented at the Copacabana Palace and named after the ambassador who asked for it. Cook it and you will know more than the platform does.