The reason to eat orange with feijoada is to help the digestion of fat meat but also the vitamin C improves the absorption of iron from beans and collard greens .
Not sure if this is an intended reason or just a happy consequence, but, yeah, gitamin c helps converting Fe3+ to Fe2+, one of the two forms that can be absorbed by the human body. Meat usually already contains heme iron, which is the second absorbable form and is absorbed even more easily, but beans and other plants greatly benefit from the vitamin c absorption boost
5:00 the thing about pão de queijo at the airport is that, besides being indeed a very popular snack, it is also usually the cheapest option available (especially considering how marked up food prices are in airports)
@@DruggiePlays I'm Brazilian, born and raised. I like rice and beans but I can stay for years without it. Actually I prefer farofa and beans. Another thing, the combination rice + beans is not exclusive of Brazil. People eat it in many Latin American countries.
Not really, we have both, and the more south you go, the more Flames on it (and the better it gets). Embers is more common when Slow Cooking (12-Hour Ribs for example), the common BBQ is done in an hour and uses open flames. and yes, i know the Embers do a lot of the work, but calling it just Embers is equating it to JUST Embers, which waits for the fire to stop before cooking, and it's not like normal flames on charcoal can exist without embers anyway.
@@thelorddarkam3563 and the people who don't like raw meat can insert their opinions into a specific hole which i won't name. we can talk absolutes, well-done is for people with bad taste, you don't say "you can't talk absolutes about literal shit tasting bad" just because some insane people like eating it, Humans are a single species, we have lots of basis for common ground, at best we have differences in what kinds of tastes (sweetness, bitterness, spiciness, etc) we like, but bovine meat doesnt change like this when cooked more, it just loses the flavor.
@@_theFeltes I agree that well done is a waste of the meat flavors, but about the flames vs embers I'll say that slow cook over embers is more common in the South than anywhere else. I'm from SC, currently live in SP and have lived in almost all the regions, and although the Southern people have more of a tradition of having churrascos more often (and thus are often more proficient at it), the techniques are not very different in the whole country.
Chicken heart skewers are very common at bbqs all over Brazil! Also I've never seen Strogonoff pizza but I wouldn't be surprised, we put literally anything on pizza...
Pão de queijo is amazing, but a bit high on the calories hahaha. I like to eat them with a tea spoon of nutella on top (I know it's uncommon, but it's delicious).
@@bexigah I agree. I'm Brazilian and I don't eat rice and beans everyday. Actually I stay weeks, sometimes more than a month, without eating rice and beans.
@@MauroVictorBarros Lots of other cultures consume rice and beans regularly. In Lantin America it is a staple. Pakistan and in many Atlantic African countries as well.
@@MauroVictorBarros Perhaps you are the exception. I think he was talking in the average and not the exceptions. Most Brazilians eat that combination of food daily. I don't think it is weird. It is part of your culture. We eat hamburgers weekly at least. Yours is healthy and ours isn't.
yeah... it's because açaí is very hard to cultivate, store and transport, so outside of the North (where it grows) you only find it frozen and processed, and it looses a lot of it's flavor. People from other regions literally don't know how it's supposed to taste, and we cover it up with a lot of sweet shit. I'm pretty sure it's the same in other countries. Basically only close to the Amazon it's consumed more properly.
Glad you made this video , please dont forget to tell us about the Serra Gaucha small towns , and if the storms and tornados that hit the south of Brazil are dangerous .
The why Brazil's meat tastes better is more about how we separate the pieces of meat into different cuts of meat such as Pichanha or Fraldinha. One other point is the vegetal coal we wait it turns into ember to cook the meat always trying to leave inside the meat red while the outside is crispy
I eat it during and after. At least in my family it is very common to serve a variety of fruits with the main dish. (My family is northern. Paraiba and Maranhão) it is very very common to hage mango, papaya and orange cuts in the middle of the table. Sometimes pineapple as well.
It's really common to eat it with the feijoada, in the middle of the meal. It helps to cleanse your palate, as feijoada is really fat and the citric acid kinda "breaks" the sensation of fat in your mouth. E falando como brasileiro, uma laranjinha ajuda a dar aquela assentada na comida pra caber mais um pouquinho
All the food in the video are the most common ones. If you dig down into the Brazillian culinary, you may find some recipes not very interesting, but they are more a regional thing than an "everyday recipe". For example, in most parts of Brazil, people eat/drink the Açai as sort of icre cream or cold beverage, in the northen part, people ALSO use it dried like a flour and mix it with common food.
@@NayuzAqua não. Enrolado de salsicha eh uma salsicha enrolada naquela massa parecida com coxinha e frita, o dogão são duas numa massa assada tipo hamburgão/joelho.
@@MetalHev AHH sei qual é. Aqui onde eu moro fala assado de salsicha msm kkkk Gosto especialmente do queijo catupiry no meio quando colocam, fica mt bom!
The whole thing about Brasilian food is that we like strong flavors. So, if its supposed to be salty, we will put salt to the limit, same to sweetness or spicy. Thats why we put everything on pizza or hot dog: plain dough and cheese or just a bun with a sausage tastes "empty", so we think abou anything that can work well with those ingredients. Also, as someone who has been raised in Minas Gerais, I can say that our habits (including food, traditional clothing and so on) are based on hard working and courtesy. In Minas Gerais we have "feijao tropeiro", which is a mix of beans, bacon, sausages, pork, cale, eggs, cassava flour and some places put fried bananas. Its a really heavy meal, but it is intended to be a meal that a person eats in the morning and stays satisfied till the end of a working day at a farm. The thing about "pão de queijo" and a coffee is simply some tasty and quick snack to give someone who visists your house. In Minas Gerais is obligatory to have some coffee when visiting someone, refusing is considered disrespectful. Maybe because we have one of the best (if not the best) coffees in Brazil.
Unfortunately brazilians are pretty stubborn and plain with their food behaviour even among themselves. Denying coffee is really seems as an insult and that's okay, since there no open-mindness anyway to try anything new anyway.
Some typical brazilian pizza flavours: Calabresa, which is basically the most common Brazilian meat sausage pizza; Frango com catupiry, which is shredded chicken with catupiry spreadable cheese (catupiry is a type of Brazilian cheese); Portuguesa, which includes sausages, onions, bell peppers and sliced cooked eggs...
Pizza Portuguesa in São Paulo includes mozzarella, onion rings, boiled egg, ham, and sometimes peas.I personally didn't like the ones that swap the ham for sausage. 😂
Chicken hearts are excellent on the barbecue. As for sweet pizzas, the best is banana and cinnamon. Pizzas with chocolate and other very sweet things end up being bad, but some people like them. In some places that sell açaí, they offer another flavor option made from another fruit called cupuaçu, which is very tasty. Another interesting fact about açaí is that in the north of Brazil, where açaí is grown, people usually eat it in savory dishes. Only in the rest of the country has it become popular as a frozen dessert.
Oh, I love banana cinnamon pizza, and find it super funny foreign people usually get into the whole fruit-on-pizza discourse through pineapple. Also, as a nice note to mention, cupuacú is a close relarive of cacao and their pulps usually taste somewhat similar, and pretty sour but tasty for many (not a fan in particular)
I find some brigadeiros to be too sweet as well, but it depends on how it's made. It can be made with cocoa powder, or with the chocolate powder that's used to make chocolate milk like nescau or toddy. I personally prefer to do it with cocoa powder, the condensed milk is already sweet enough, and most chocolate powder are more on the sweet side as well, while cocoa powder is bitter. It breaks up a bit and becomes more muted in my opinion. Additionally, you can add a couple teaspoons of instant coffe and that elevates the taste even more to me haha.
It's still too sweet to an european, their deserts almost don't have sugar. We make sweet deserts because of the sugarcane monocultures that sustained our economy for so long. This cuisine was developed because Brasil had a prohibition on agriculture, we could not plant anything that wasn't profitable as a colony.
In countryside Brazil, it's common to serve yourself directly from the tree, when i was a kid i remember going out with my grandma, collecting wild rare fruits (sweet goya, abiu, pomegranates, jabuticaba) and that habit of gathering still stand to this day, as i always collect some fresh fruits when going to work 😂
We like to improve the food of other cultures. Look at what we did with croissants... We saw their plain bread thing, and raised it by stuffing it with chocolate, cheese, or goiabada. They might find it """offensive""" at first, but by god, it's delicious and objectively better
But this is not common throughout Brazil, I believe it is a custom in the southeast... Other regions of Brazil would consider this a violation of their feijoda lol
If you think brazillian hot dogs are crazy, wait until you see the venezuelan hot dog! They put EVERYTHING on that thing, even avocado and like a million sauces
Despite the legends, the feijoada dish was created in navigation, all the ingredients do not require refrigeration, from salted or smoked meats, sausages and dried grains (beans and rice) in addition to flour. Orange was important to sailors. Furthermore, feijoada appears in the main ports of Brazil and not in the interior.
@@flavioromano8754 On the farms, workers had neither the time nor the means to salt meat, smoke it or even make sausages. And these are the main ingredients of feijoada.
@@БабаЯга-ш7хNo misinformation there. The "original" feijoada is european, it was just better developed by brazilians, and was likely done by sailors. The fact that it's mostly popular in Rio de Janeiro, the most important coastal city, is a giveaway
INCREDIBLE AS IT MAY SEE! For chicken hearts to be good, you have to skewer them or cut them into small pieces to make them good (on pizza). If you roast them whole, they will have a different flavor, which I think is bad.
The key to bbq chicken hearts is to season it with something, and not roasting it to much. And the key for a good chicken heart pizza is to cook the hearts in pan with tomato sauce salt pepper and etc, and then put it on top of the pizza
I think the origin of the Orange in the Feijoada is to prevent Scurbut in the old days, specialty during sea travels. Also the vitamin C increases the absortion of iron from the black beans.
For the ones that doesn't know how our sweet pizzas are made: They bake the dough untill it's almost done, then add some chocolate or whatever it's supposed to be used as filling, put it in the oven again for a couple of minutes so that the filling heats up, and you're done. The pizza is a lot more crunch then a salty pizza, because of the bake process without any filling.
In Brazil the chicken hearts can get very expensive due to demand for barbecues. In the rest of the world it's used for animal food due to lack of commercial value. Sad, chicken hearts are delicious.
Great video! Somethings I'd like to add tho: About rice and beans, it's like the "default" meal of Brasil. It's literally expected that you have it at least every week day, every household. It's the reliable, good, healthy food. You might even hear sentences like "That new Planet of the Apes movie is kinda rice and beans" to refer to something being common, unsuprising, maybe even formulaic but still fine. Pão de queijo is also a food that you're expected to have everyday. At least if you're from Minas Gerais. We eat it at breakfest and it's our go to afternoon snack because it's usually the cheapest and, in Minas Gerais, it's really really good. Mineiros don't even eat Pão queijo out of state, they say it tastes completely different (and it does). It's that serious. Coxinhas are also crazy common, they're not a routine like rice and beans or Pão de queijo, but they're literally everywhere so you usually end up getting one some time or another. Just to put it in perspective: I had never thought of them as a Brazillian snack until just now. I guess I just assumed they were worldwide because of how widespread they are here. The thought of someone going through lives and never eating a Coxinha never crossed my mind.
I'm brazilian and I 100% agree with the hotdogs around here. IT IS CRAZY😂. I'm a minimalist like the rest of the world, bread, salsage, ketchup and a little bit of fried potato straws are more than enough. My wife, however, builds a MONSTER meal 😅 you got a point
The cachorro quente (hot dog) was definitely a surprise my friend from São Paulo introduced me to it when I visited her house there. This thing is an entire meal on its own it’s got the wiener, shredded potatoes, cheese and other things absolutely loved it.
You should experiment the "xis" from Porto Alegre. It's a cheeseburger of sorts, but it's sometimes the size of a plate. Literally. And it can have even MORE things than cachorro quente. It's delicious.
Hahahah, Nice video, dude. My Record at a rodízio de pizza was 18 slices 😂, the secret is to not have any breakfast or lunch before It, so you don't give profit to the owner 😂
There is a big difference between the barbecue from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (south in special). While in Brazil we use charcoal and salt, the other countries uses wood and some sauces with herbs and other things. On the south of Brazil in some places people may prefer Sheep (not Lamb, but old Sheep full of grass).
I'm Brazilian, from the state of São Paulo, here we think it's strange to eat orange with feijoada, but in certain fatty meals, after the meal, we like to eat orange or fruit salads with orange juice. edit: We don't eat potatoes every day, more like once or twice a week, but yes, we eat rice and beans almost every day. The reason we eat a lot of cheese bread at the airport, at least as I was taught, is that the normal airport snacks may not be "fresh", so if you don't want or can't find a freshly made meal, cheese bread It is a quick and practical solution
If you don't have rice and beans, it's not a meal. It's a snack at best. About pizza, in the there in the South it's not very good to be honest, but in São Paulo we have some of the best pizza in the world, easily. And chicken hearts are popular in the whole country, although it's a bit divisive. It's not uncommon for Brazilians not to like them (me included).
Thats a guy that got Brazilianized right there! Kkkkk. I felt a lot of love in your words. We have chicken hearts for appertizers in our barbecues. Simply delicious. Pizza (and burguers) with chicken hearts is a thing of Rio Grande do Sul. Not very common in São Paulo though.
bro... you need to have the coxinha made with potato instead of dough! its soooooo much better. if you ever travel to Para state, the coxinha is way better, the tapioca is way better, and the acai is pure (regular, sweet (hard to find), and white) nice video!
Just for remind you, the sweetness of açaí come from the Guarana Syrup witch is added in the process. The brazilian souteasth eat as desert but in the northeast and north they eat in a meal and it is not sweet.
Comida brasileira é estranha, disse o comedor de Surströmming. Aliás obrigado pela Absolut e o time sueco feminino (sic) de futebol. 🇧🇷 🇸🇪 Forte abraço. ✌️ P.S: Depois eu vejo o vídeo com mais calma para não ser injusto.
I liked the commentaries you made on each food, and I wanted to share some thoughts about my Brazil to people from other countries that find this commentary here. On the South part of Brasil its part of our tradition doing BBQ on sunday's, but meat is always an expensive thing. Rice and beans is like a safe port for someone that wants to start cooking, but you can use Noodles with beans too. Cheese bread and coxinha are good as anything and you can get addicted to them, about hotdog in brazil I gotta say for USA or any person who look at our hotdogs or pizzas will think is bad, but if you taste them, and still don't like it its the persons opinion wich we can't change. Brigadeiro and açaí man you need to be a cold hearted person to say its bad, well açaí depends on the tipe one but brigadeiro you can't say its bad.
Combining rice and beans makes for a healthy and plant based source of protein. I wasnt expecting one would find that weird since combining grains and legumes is pretty comum around the world as a daily source of protein
I wonder what he would say seeing people from Minas Gerais eating banana with rice and beans and the varieties fried banana with sugar and cinnamon and banana chips.
Sweden sounds very european and american at the same time. Barbecued chicken heart is delicious, but can be very greasy and sit very heavy in the stomach if you eat enough of it.
I’ve lived in RS for 2.5 years now, originally from England. One thing I struggle with the most is the lack of choices for takeout. I live in a fairly small city and whenever we check iFood it’s just one lancheria after another, each one selling the EXACT SAME STUFF as the one before.
@@nordicinvestor Funny, there is an Americam vogler that loved to eat chicken heart. I also don't eat Sarapatel and Buchada ( there was a joke if the politician could eat them in central market to get votes). Both dishes are from Northeast of the country. So, in my opinion, with feijoada, those are the most strange food of the country. I forgot chicken with pardo souce/molho pardo (blood) from Minas Gerais.
Yes, chicken hearts are eaten throughout the country, but in my experience it's not something everyone loves. In my family, only my father likes them. Also, the best brigadeiros are those bought ready, used aplenty in birthday parties. Homemade ones aren't that amazing, but still a nice dessert every now and then.
It’s true we do eat rice and beans everyday and as a Brazilian I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t eat rice and beans everyday. And barbecue to me is every weekend lmao
I'm Brazilian and even if I find ice cream pizza delicious, it's one of the most "wtf are you doing with pizza" flavours we have. It's a proof of how little F we give to the "tradition" of other culture's foods.
And the person serving barbecue serves meat until u can't eat anymore... that is the best best definition of Brazilian barbecue. I heard that I few times when I was living in Australia. We serve meat until no on can have it anymore.
The cuts of the meat in Brazil are different (I think they differ from country to country) and they usually include some portion of fat (cooking the meat with the fat makes it taste better... at least that's what I've heard). Then there's the "sal grosso" thing we put on it.
Do you already eat pudim de leite condensado, brigadeiro, cocada, doce de leite, paçoca, pave de pêssego and mousse de maracujá? I think are the top desserts from Brazil 😍
Apparently Brazilians felt triggered for no reason 😂😂😂😂 But from a foreigner’s perspective, the food from a different country always have potential to be considered weird, it’s a cultural phenomenon and should be celebrated.
is because we eat rice, beans, salad, vegetables and beef and It gets the perfect nutritional balance. We believe in our food. So much better than lunch bread. Also our main meal is lunch not dinner.
Brazilians feel that Brazil is their home and are usually happy to receive guests, show their culture and offer their food, so many may feel uncomfortable (to a certain extent and with some exceptions) when their meals are constantly judged, found strange or even treated with disgust... Many feel this as a dishonor, or in this case in portuguese "uma desfeita". So in Brazilian culture, people are taught to keep this type of opinion to themselves so as not to offend or seem disgusted. In short, we value suspending judgment and being open to experiences, so that things can be appreciated as they are.
@@vastoaspecto and god helps them if start to talk about the holy cassava flour lol 😂 we are kind of weird, because we have hot blood and we are very open and honest, we like to hug a lot but we can get upset if people criticize our food before trying. If they try and don´t like we respect for sure, no worry about that. It´s absolutelly ok, we will offer another option. But before trying hmm :/ no
It's funny to see how the mix betwen many many cultures made Brazil very unique and willing to mix different foods. Chicken heart is the best freaking thing in this god forsaken planet
Açai from the North of Brazil can be very different. I think it is white and it is salty. The purple Açai usually have sugar and other things like Guarana, banana etc.
Nope. Pure açaí is not white, it's purple. Also it's not salty, it has a neutral taste. Just for your reference, I was born and raised in Northern Brazil.
