# The 29 Best Brazilian Dishes

> Savoury plates and desserts both count here, though drinks stay off the table: Bahian stews, Amazonian broths, street-market snacks and the sweets every Brazilian birthday party relies on.

*By YPB Team · Published November 7, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-29-best-brazilian-dishes*

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1. **Feijoada** — score 1000/1000
   A stew of black beans with salted and smoked pork and beef, served with rice, farofa, collard greens and orange slices.
2. **Pão de queijo** — score 885/1000
   Small baked cheese rolls from Minas Gerais made with cassava starch, eggs and cheese, naturally free of wheat.
3. **Tutu de feijão** — score 680/1000
   A Minas Gerais dish of mashed beans thickened with cassava flour, traditionally served with pork, sausage, collard greens and eggs.
4. **Pastel** — score 680/1000
   A thin rectangular pastry deep-fried with fillings such as ground beef, cheese or palm heart, sold at Brazilian street markets.
5. **Moqueca** — score 679/1000
   A fish or seafood stew cooked in a clay pot, made with dendê oil and coconut milk in Bahia and with annatto in Espírito Santo.
6. **Bobó de camarão** — score 679/1000
   A Bahian shrimp dish in a purée of cassava cooked with coconut milk and dendê oil.
7. **Baião de dois** — score 560/1000
   A Northeastern Brazilian dish of rice and beans cooked together with dried meat and queijo coalho cheese.
8. **Cuscuz paulista** — score 560/1000
   A São Paulo dish of cornmeal cooked in a pan with sardines or chicken, tomatoes, hearts of palm and boiled eggs, then pressed into a mould.
9. **Quindim** — score 560/1000
   A glossy yellow baked dessert of egg yolks, sugar and grated coconut, descended from Portuguese convent sweets.
10. **Feijão tropeiro** — score 560/1000
   A Minas Gerais dish of beans mixed with cassava flour, bacon, sausage, eggs and collard greens, named after travelling cattle drovers.
11. **Carne de sol** — score 485/1000
   Beef salted and briefly dried, a staple of Brazil's Northeast often served grilled with cassava and butter.
12. **Romeu e Julieta** — score 485/1000
   A dessert pairing guava paste with fresh white cheese such as queijo minas.
13. **Arroz carreteiro** — score 485/1000
   A rice dish from Rio Grande do Sul cooked with dried or leftover barbecued beef, originally made by ox-cart drivers.
14. **Barreado** — score 485/1000
   A beef stew from coastal Paraná slow-cooked for hours in a clay pot sealed with cassava dough, served with banana and cassava flour.
15. **Farofa** — score 397/1000
   Toasted cassava flour, often cooked with butter, bacon or onion, served as a side with feijoada and barbecue.
16. **Acarajé** — score 397/1000
   A Bahian fritter of black-eyed pea dough deep-fried in dendê oil and split open to be filled with vatapá, caruru and shrimp.
17. **Pamonha** — score 397/1000
   A paste of fresh grated corn, sweet or savoury, wrapped and boiled in corn husks, popular at the June festivals.
18. **Bolo de rolo** — score 291/1000
   A Pernambuco roll cake of paper-thin layers of buttery sponge spread with guava paste, recognised as cultural heritage of the state.
19. **Vatapá** — score 291/1000
   A creamy Afro-Brazilian paste of bread, shrimp, coconut milk, ground peanuts and dendê oil, eaten with rice or inside acarajé.
20. **Tacacá** — score 291/1000
   An Amazonian soup from Pará made with tucupi broth, jambu leaves that numb the mouth, dried shrimp and tapioca gum, served in a gourd.
21. **Brigadeiro** — score 291/1000
   A chocolate sweet of condensed milk, cocoa and butter rolled into balls and coated in chocolate sprinkles, a fixture at Brazilian birthday parties.
22. **Pato no tucupi** — score 291/1000
   Roast duck simmered in tucupi, a yellow broth from fermented wild cassava, with jambu leaves; a traditional dish of Belém at the Círio de Nazaré festival.
23. **Açaí na tigela** — score 291/1000
   Frozen açaí pulp blended into a thick purée and served in a bowl, typically topped with granola and banana.
24. **Beijinho** — score 291/1000
   A party sweet of condensed milk, butter and grated coconut rolled into balls and often topped with a clove.
25. **Picanha** — score 0/1000
   The rump cap cut of beef, skewered with its fat layer and grilled over charcoal at Brazilian churrascarias.
26. **Coxinha** — score 0/1000
   A teardrop-shaped fried snack of dough filled with shredded chicken, breaded and shaped to resemble a chicken thigh.
27. **Escondidinho** — score 0/1000
   A baked casserole of shredded dried beef or chicken hidden under a layer of mashed cassava and topped with cheese.
28. **Galinhada** — score 0/1000
   A one-pot dish of chicken and rice coloured with saffron or turmeric, associated with Goiás and often cooked with pequi.
29. **Pudim de leite** — score 0/1000
   A baked caramel custard made with condensed milk, eggs and milk, served chilled under its caramel syrup.

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