Feijoada (No exact translation - something like 'a mixture

Pedro’s Cookbook of beans')

(For about 5 people)

Ingredients:

• 1/2kg black bean - cook and separate.

Contents All following ingredients (except the 'paio') are salted. They
have to be washed several times, and boiled twice (just put in
cold water and bring to boil; change the water and bring to a
Introduction boil again). Everything (except the 'carne seca') is pork.
Pedro Gnaspini Netto is an entomologist currently working in
Brazil. Not only is Pedro a fantastic entomologist, he's also an • 250g pork loin ('lombo')
accomplished engineer, poet, artist, and above all, cook! • 250g 'paio' (a kind of soft pork sausage)
Below are some of Pedro's favourite Brazilian dishes, with an • 1 tail
introduction by the legendary Pedro himself... • 1 or 2 tongues
• 1 ear
Hello! Here come some recipes.... Now... They are typical • 1/2kg smoked pork ribs
Brazilian recipes.... I hope you can make them... and enjoy, • 300g 'carne seca' (dried beef - a kind of really soft beef
sure. jerky)

Drinks: Directions
Cut the ingredients into pieces (ca. 3x3cm to 4x4cm cubes) Put
them together in a pan, add water (just to cover them), and add
'Caipirinha' (= Little Countrygirl) 1 laurel leaf. Cook until they start to become soft.
In a separate pan, add oil, cook 1 big onion (sliced), 4-5 cloves
of garlic (chopped) and 200g bacon (chopped). Season beans
This drink is made originally with 'pinga' (= 'aguardente' or ‘cha
in this mixture.
cha cha’, which is a distilled drink made from sugarcane, like
Add meat (and water if needed) and cook on low heat, until
rum), but you can use rum.
cooked.
Serve with white rice, kale (finely sliced and simmered - use
only olive oil and garlic) and orange (peeled and sliced).
Ingredients (You may serve hot pepper sauce to be added to the dish, if
• 1 lime (the best would be to use a small yellow lemon called someone wants.)
'galego', in Brazil - if you find it, use 2 instead of 1 lime)
• sugar
• 'pinga' (sugar and pinga are added to taste) Before serving the main dish, you 'must' serve 'caipirinha'!!
• icecubes

'Moqueca' (No translation)

Directions (for about 8 people)
Peel the lime not entirely - leave about 1/5 of the peel.
Cut into eighths, put into a glass. Ingredients
sugar, somewhat covering the lime pieces (or to taste). Mash • 2 kg fish (grouper or shark)
well, using a wood pestle. Add pinga (to taste), 'washing' the • Lime drops
pestle while mixing well. • 1/2 teaspoon salt
Break some ice cubes into pieces and add to the drink... and • ground black pepper (in Brazil we have an "white" "black
enjoy. pepper" - prefer it)
• 3 seedless redpeppers, sliced (rings)
Don't drink too much! • 1 kg ripe tomatoes (hard), sliced (round)
• 5 medium size onions, sliced (rings)
• 2 tbsp chopped coriander
• 2 tbsp chopped parsley
Main Courses: • 2 tbsp chopped chive
• 1 cup oil
• 250ml coconut-milk
• tbsp 'dende'-oil (you can cook without, but it's not gonna be
what it should be - dende is extracted from an african

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 oilpalm (Elaeis guineensis) - I don't know if it is available Suspiro (="sigh")
where you are) I don't know if you use the English "sigh" for both pain and love.
In this case, "sigh" is for love.

Directions
Cut fish into thick slices (ca. 2 fingers), season with lime, salt Ingredients
and pepper. • eggs
Let stand in fridge for 1 hour.
• sugar
In a bowl, mix redpeppers, onions and tomatoes.
Add coriander, parsley and chive. Mix well. Spread some of the
mixture over the bottom of a 'clay'-pan (large). Add one layer of
fish, one layer of the mixture, successively. Pour oil and cook Directions
on top of the oven, at low heat, for 30 minutes. Turn oven off, For each eggwhite, use 2 tbsp sugar.
cover tightly, and let stand for ca. 2 hours. Beat the eggwhite until it is almost hard (we call in Portuguese
Turn oven on, when it starts to boil, add the coconut-milk and "point of snow") and add, while still beating, the sugar little by
the dende-oil. little.
Cook for ca. 15 minutes more. Taste if fish is well-cooked. Use a tbsp to drop some drops of the mix into a baking pan
Serve with white rice. (keep them at least twice the diameter apart).
Bake in a preheated oven (at lowheat) for one hour. DON'T
open the oven.
They have to be golden, crispy outside and somewhat jelly
'Camarão com Catupiry na Moranga' (= Shrimp and 'cream inside.
cheese' in the pumpkin)
Very good!
('Catupiry' is the trade mark of a kind of cream cheese from
Brazil - you may use for instance Philadelphia cream cheese
(also the taste is stronger than needed) - I guess the italian
cheese 'mascarpone' would give better results) Ambrosia (no translation)

This is a must for shrimp lovers! Ingredients

• 1L Milk
• 6 eggs
Ingredients:
• 1/2 kg sugar
• Olive oil • ground cinnamon
• 1 Onion
• 2 Garlic cloves
• Tomatoes (if desired; 1 or 2 chopped) Directions
• Shrimps (~500g)
Mix 1 l milk; 6 eggs; 1/2kg sugar; ground cinnamon (at your
• Cream cheese (~400g) taste) into a cooking pan.
• Pumpkin-shaped squash (about 25-30 cm in diameter) top of the oven, cook, cook... always turning (use a wood
spoon) until it's golden brown and/or a somewhat thick syrup is
formed.
Directions
In a pan, put olive oil, add chopped onion and garlic, and fry. Very good (and "heavy").
Add chopped tomatoes and cook until you have a 'chunky'
sauce.
Add shrimps (use small ones, cleaned), mix, and cook only for Banana cake
a while.
Add the cream cheese, mix well, and pour the mixture into the
Ingredients
squash (which will be your 'pan').
Bake (in low-medium heat) until squash is cooked (don't let it • 10 tbsp flour
overcook!). • 1 cup and 10 tbsp sugar
When serving, take squash pulp together with the shrimp- • 1 tbsp baking powder
cheese mixture. • ground cinnamon
• bananas
• 3 eggs
Tip: use a ca. 25-30cm diameter squash (as short as possible). • 2 cups of warm milk.
Take seeds out.
If needed, take part of pulp out - leave about a 3cm thick wall.
Directions
1. Mixture of 10tbsp flour; 10 tbsp sugar; 1 tbsp baking powder
Desserts: 2. Mixture of: 1 cup sugar; ground cinnamon (at your taste)
3. Thin longitudinal slices of banana
4. Mixture of 3 beaten eggs and 2 cups of warm milk
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In a greased baking pan, repeat - 1 layer of (1); 1 layer of (3); 1 Ingredients:
layer of (2) then 1 layer of (1); pour number (4). • 6 eggs
Bake.
• 6 tbsp sugar
• 6 tbsp breadcrumb
• 1 tbsp flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
Bolo de Maracujà (Passionfruit cake)

Ingredients Directions
• 2 cups flour In a blender, mix all ingredients.
• 2 cups sugar Pour into a greased baking pan, and bake on medium-high
• 5 eggs separate temperature.
• 1 cup passionfruit pulp When baked (toothpick test: a toothpick inserted into the centre
• 100g margarine comes out clean), still hot, add the following sauce over it.
• 1 tbsp baking powder
Sauce:
• 1 cup water
Directions • 2 cup sugar
• 1 cup 'pinga' (or rum)
Blend the passionfruit pulp, take the seeds out, and reserve.
Mix, bring to boil, pour over the cake.
Beat eggwhite to "snow point" and reserve
Beat well eggyolk + sugar + margarine
Add passionfruit
Add flour spoon by spoon, mixing well (don't beat it! mix with 'Brigadeiro'(= Brigadier)
your hands)
Mix well. Add baking powder. Pour into a greased pan (that one Ingredients
which is
used to get a cake with a hole in the middle. Do you know?) • 2 cans condensed milk
Detail: grease • 4 eggyolks
the pan, and pour bread crumbs on it, and take out the • 1 tbsp margarine (unsalted)
excess... only • 2 tbsp chocolate powder
after that you may pour the cake in it... • Chocolate sprinkles
Bake on a preheated oven (medium)
Directions
Sauce: 2 cups passionfruit pulp (with seeds) + 2 cups sugar. For Microwave oven: Mix everything well in a bowl. Microwave
Cook ontop of the oven, mixing well (do not boil!!) until you get for 5 minutes.
a dense syrup. Take the baked cake out of the pan. Pour the Mix again. Microwave again 5 minutes. Mix very well -
sauce on it... and enjoy!! until homogeneous.
After cooling, make balls (1" diameter) and roll over
chocolate sprinkles.
Avocado cream If not in microwave: Mix and cook ontop of the oven, NEVER
stop mixing.
(As far as I know, Brazil is the only place where people eat (Good luck when washing the pan!)
avocado sweetened, and NEVER salted, like in salads,
guacamoles, etc. - If someone knows somewhere else where Try the brigadier! Hummmmm!
avocado is served as dessert, please let me know -add recipe
please) Try this recipe... 'Bombas' (= Bombs)

In a blender, mix avocado (without seed!!!), sugar, lime drops Ingredients

and white wine. • 150g flour
Chill and serve. • 250ml water
• 100g margarine
A suggested proportion for 1st try (proportion certainly depends • 4 eggs
on how big and sweet is the avocado): 3 avocados (based on • salt
the size of North American specimens I've seen), 2 tbsp sugar,
1 lime, 1/2 cup wine.
Directions
In a pan, bring water, salt and margarine to boil.
Add all flour, and cook, never stop mixing (use wooden spoon).
'Bolo Bêbado' (= Drunk Cake) When the mixture forms one whole 'ball', and easily 'unglues'
from the pan, turn the oven off, and let it cool.
When cooled, add eggs one by one, mixing (beating)
'vigorously'.

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Spread some 'drops' of the mixture on a tray, and bake in a For More Information:
preheated oven, high heat, for 15-20 minutes - until they are
'dry' and golden. New recipes and updated information is added periodically on
When cool, add stuffing, and glaze. the Pedro’s Kitchen WWW page. New versions of the
cookbook may also be obtained at this site. Just point your
Stuffing: cream, vanilla cream or chocolate cream. WWW browser to
For the latter two, make a cream with corn starch (e.g., 1 cup http://superior.carleton.ca/~pwigfull/pedro.html and enjoy!
milk, 2 tbsp level corn starch, 2 tbsp level sugar).

Glazing (or any other chocolate glazing):

• 2 coffee cup confectioner's sugar
• 1 coffee cup powder chocolate
• 2 tbsp margarine
• 2 tbsp boiling water
Mix all ingredients, and cook in 'bain-marie'.

'Doce de Abóbora' (= Squash Candy)

Ingredients
• 1 kg squash (you may use squash or pumpkin)
• 700g sugar

Directions
Cut squash into pieces (ca. 3-4cm squares).
In a large pan, put the sugar, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
When the sugar starts melting, add squash (arrange it below
the sugar).
Mix from time to time, until cooked. If needed, add some water.

When to stop cooking: it's up to you. You may have cubes, or

leave the candy become a cream.
Tip: If doing it creamy, you may add coconut (ground) while
cooking.

'Pão de Mel' (= Honey Bread)

Ingredients
• 3 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tbsp chocolate powder
• 1 cup honey
• 1 teaspoon ground clove
• 1 tbsp margarine
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Directions
Mix everything and bake in a greased pan, in medium heat
oven, until cooked (use toothpick test).
When cool, glaze with a chocolate glazing.
Better: cut into ca. 5cm squares, and THEN glaze.

For microwave: Bake for 10-12 minutes, medium.

Glazing for microwave: melt ca. 500g chocolate bar, for 4
minutes, medium.