10 mouth-watering Brazilian regional snacks

Brazil has a diverse cuisine with unique flavors and ingredients. Our diversity of flavors is such that a gastronomic trip across the country could take months… in this post, we will talk about savory delicacies.

O Incredible.club gathered 10 traditional snacks here in Brazil for you to take a gastronomic trip without leaving home.

But, of course, we know that a post is not able to cover this delicious universe. Therefore, we invite you to tell in the comments what are the typical delicacies of your region.

Encapotado is a chicken dumpling that stands out in the gastronomic tradition of the region of Itapeva, Tatuí and Itapetininga, all in the interior of SP, being considered a typical dish of these cities. The recipe (check it out here) for this snack is old and mixes ingredients such as sour starch that serves to give it more crunchiness and not open the cake when frying.

The scotch egg known here in Brazil as bolovo, is a breaded minced meat ball that is stuffed with a whole boiled egg (recipe here). Much appreciated in some neighborhoods of São Paulo, bolovo has even won a version in which it is wrapped in coxinha dough.

Contrary to what the name suggests, it is not a soup, but a savory cake made with corn, cheese, eggs and onions. Traditional in Paraguay, it is also widely consumed in Mato Grosso do Sul. In the past, this delicacy was presented in liquid form, but the recipe (check it out here) was adapted, adding corn flour, and one of the probable origins of this modification is that the “soup” became solid to facilitate the transport of this food by soldiers during the Paraguay War.

X-Caboquinho is a very popular delicacy in amazon🇧🇷 It is a snack served on a French bread stuffed with ingredients that are common in North region from Brazil, such as tucumã which is the fruit of a palm tree (tucumanzeiro), fried ripe plantain, coalho cheese and butter. Much appreciated by Amazonians, it is present on the morning menu accompanied by a coffee with hot milk.

This salty Goiás it is almost unanimous inside and outside the state. The empada recipe, which was brought by the Portuguese to Brazil, in Goiás territory underwent changes beyond delicious, incorporating typical Goiás ingredients such as pequi and palm heart guariroba, in addition to sausage, shredded chicken and pork loin (see recipe). complete here).

The rolled (or Italian) is quite popular and easily found in bakeries and bars across Brazil, but in Rio de Janeiro this salt is known as Knee. It is made with bread dough traditionally stuffed with ham and cheese (recipe here).

The Bolivian dumpling originates from Bahia what was created after a Brazilian cook used leftover saltenha pasta (a typical baked pastry from Bolivia) to add other ingredients, so the filling was spicy and to balance the flavors, she decided to pass the dumpling after it was fried in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. For the boliviano recipe click here.

This delicacy is very popular in Roraima and is also part of the typical cuisine of the Acre. It was created by replacing wheat for kibbeh — used in the Arabic recipe — with rice, the most accessible and popular ingredient here in Brazil. Check out the recipe for this kibbe here, which can be made using leftover rice to make the pasta.

Taioba is a typical vegetable mining with a spinach-like flavor. Raw taioba is unfit for consumption because it contains calcium oxalate which is toxic; however, when the vegetable is heated, as in the preparation of the dumpling (recipe here) it brings many nutritional benefits to the body, including studies have reported that taioba can prevent cancer.

Petropolis Bread is a very popular loaf of bread among cariocas which is usually served thickly sliced ​​with butter and grilled. For many it is the best recipe for loaf of bread (check it out here) and the difference between Petropolis and other types is that to give that golden color on the top of the bread, a mixture of egg yolks and coffee is brushed.

Do you know another traditional savory delicacy here in Brazil? Tell us.