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Brazil

Brazilian cookery, like Brazil itself, varies very much by region. An enormous country that boasts a breadth of influences, for example Amerindian, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, German, Arab, African and Japanese.

Brazil's culture and fare are extremely distinct. Dishes such as picadinho de jacaré are quite original; the meal is produced from alligator meat. The natural crops from the region also help to increase its singularity

 Root vegetables like cassava (locally known as mandioca, aipim or macaxeira) yams, peanuts and fruits like açaí, cupuaçu, mango, papaya, guava, orange, passionfruit, pineapple and hog plum are among the local ingredients utilised in cooking. Brazilian pine nuts called pinhão grow in a tree that's abundant in the southern part of Brazil, and are a popular national snack, as well as a lucrative export. Rice and beans is a very common dish, as are fish, beef and pork.

Some typical dishes are caruru, which consists of sun-dried meat, beans, goat and corn meal; [feijoada] a simmered bean-and-meat dish; tutu de feijão, which is a paste of beans and mandioca flour; moqueca capixaba, which can be made of fish and tomato; and chouriço, a mildly spicy sausage. Barreado, a meal from the State of Paraná, is created by putting meat in ceramic pans and burying the pans under the soil so that the meat boils with the heat from the sun. Salgadinhos, cheese bread, pastéis and coxinha are common finger foods, while cuscuz branco, milled tapioca, is a popular dessert. Brazil is also known for its cachaça, a popular native liquor used to create chic Caipirinha cocktails.

Brazil is known for its gauchos, cowboy figures in the Pampas regions. A barbecue-style meat called churrasco is thus popular in those regions. Many Brazilian restaurants that open abroad serve churrasco, therefore the dish is perceived in the international community as one of the main meals in the country. In actuality, the country's enormous geographic scope creates regional differences in the cuisine and no single dish can encompass and represent the national palate.