Maranhense Cookery :Maranhense Cookery


Slide 2:Maranhão culinary tradition is extremely rich. Variety and sophistication are just some of the words used to describe the local taste. Even though the local culinary is a mixture of European, African and Native Indian influences, the predominance of the African element is evident.


Slide 3:Along with meat in general, our kitchen uses a vast amount and variety of fish and seafood. On the Island of St. Louis, fruits of the sea are abundant and varied. A big portion of the population of the island, has its main occupation in fishing and fish or shrimp on the extraction of crab, sururu, oyster and sarnambi. Food


Slide 4:Very linked to portuguese tradition, like guisados or ensopados that here turns Brazilians by art of african-indigenous, we can include okra, jerimum, sweet potato, inform, macaxeira, tarioba, olive oil, palm oil, and coconut milk - babassu, and coconut milk of the beach, we do meat, offal, fish and seafood. Also it gives a number of free-frying and baked, with variations around the moqueado, moqueca, refogado and escabeche.


Slide 5:We particularly have appreciated cookes, which are those of rabada and chest of cattle vacum. Sarrabulho, mocotó, and many other dishes. The rice and the water flour or puba are our basic passer, also called accompaniment. The first, well known figure in the rice-of-fat, rice-of-shrimp, rice-of-jaçanã and maria-isabel. The second, in the family of paçocas, farofas and pirões, chibés, tiquaras and mingaus.


Slide 6:The most typical pies are of shrimp (dried or fresh), dried fish (especially hake, jabiraca and mullet), kids, chicken, crab and sururu. The most known and typical dish is, of course, the cuxá, made with a plant of African origin which come with white rice and fried fish, recording the use of shrimp pie, or as rival of fried fish.


Sweets :Sweets The most favorit sweets are: bacuri, buriti, banana, orange, apricot, murici, Jaca, pineapple, guava and cashew nuts. Other delicious flavors are the sigh-of-iaiá, eye-of-sogra, quindins-of-iaiá, arrufos-of-sinhá, chats-of-angel, cops, baba-of-girl, cookies-of - love, capelinhas, melindres and many others.


Drinks :Drinks Wines, emulsions and macerated, which receive between us, as the circumstances, the names of cambica or sembereba, include, in addition to many others, to juçara (açaí) and bacaba, which, if not take sugar, may have dried shrimp , Fish or meat fried or roasted for monitoring.


Slide 13:It’s common act as full meal, in which case require the partnership of flour. The houses or places that sell juçara usually hang a branch of juçareira or a red flag in the doors and windows to indicate the sell of the same. In the other hand, the juices of murici, cupuaçu, jacama (soursop), buriti, cashew, tamarindo, bacuri, cajá, cajazinho, always demanding sugar, though, as the flour, no matter closed.


Componentes: :Componentes: Caio Anderson Laila Mecking Manoela Paschoal Patrícia Guilhon Rosa Paula Andressa Pedro Araújo Petrus Fortes Tiago Martins