Recipe: Caipirinha

the appetizer:

Brazil's culinary influences include not only Amerindian and Portuguese foods, but the cooking styles of immigrants from many other parts of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Each of the country's five geographic regions offer cuisines that are distinctly different yet recognizably Brazilian.

Brazil

Caipirinha
(brandy cocktail named "little peasant girl")

Serves 1

1 lime, quartered
1 to 2 tablespoons sugar
2 ounces cachaca*
Ice cubes

Mash the lime quarters in a cocktail glass with a wooden pestle. Do not remove the pieces of crushed lime. Add the sugar and cachaca. Fill the glass with ice cubes and stir well.

*Cachaca is available in the United States in metropolitan liquor stores and in some Brazilian specialty food stores.

From Eat Smart In Brazil. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Ginkgo Press.

Brazil

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Brazilian Recipes

Bolinhos de Arroz (little rice balls)
Caipirinha (brandy cocktail)
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Coconut Milk
Couve Minera (kale)
Coxinhas (Mock chicken legs)
Farofa de Manteiga (buttered manioc meal)
Moqueca de Camarao (shrimp stew)
Mugunza (hominy dessert)
Peixe Ensopado (fish stew)
Picandinho de Porco (minced pork)

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