Brazilian Junk Food
North Americans are not the only people that are experts in junk food. We have a say here in Brazil that: We copy everything from everybody all over the world, but we do it better. It’s a joke but you will understand in a bit. Brazilian Junk food is a little bit different from North American’s. First of all: It has to be big and have a BIG variety of ingredients! You will understand in a bit. The other characteristic is that we can produce anywhere. We have TONS of small business only producing this two meals.
Let’s start with one that you all know pretty well: HOT DOG, in Portuguese we say ‘Cachorro-quente’ which means exactly the same thing. The difference is inside the bun. A true Hot Dog in a Brazilian style has at least these items: Bun, tomato sauce, sausage, corn, pea, boiled and smashed eggs, mayonnaise, parmesan and shoestring-potatoes (it’s like very thin chips.)
This is a big one, and VERY good!
This is the basic recipe the final result it’s very tasty. That’s why I ate only one hot dog in Canada, it was only a sausage and the bun with ketchup… :p We Brazilians are at least creative.
She will kill me because of this picture :p
The second dish of today is more local and it will remember one that we all know. This is called ‘XIS’ which might remind you of a Hamburger, but in the Brazilian way (we copied the hamburger and made it ‘better’)
In a ‘XIS’ we have: Special bun, mayonnaise, hamburger meat, lettuce, tomato, fried egg, ham, pea and corn. Again, this is the basic one; we have several types of recipe for this meal. We can change the meat, sauce, fill etc…
You’ll never go wrong with a ’Salad XIS’, it’s traditional.
XIS you can mostly find in this south Brazil region. I have some friends that moved out from my state and they still can’t stop thinking about it :p
I hope you’re all hungry, because I need one of those right now! :p
Obrigado, ttyl
baim
ia dar fome, ainda bem que é cedo! heheheh
carol vai te matar por causa da foto!
mas é taaaao bom esse tipo de porcarias de comer né? tsc tsc.
bjoka
Tô tão linda na foto!
Hey Ricardo: I can’t eat junk food here in Canada(I’m a diabetic with kidney disease) and after reading about Brazilian junk food….there is no way in hell I could eat that either but I do admire how you “super size” and expand on North American recipes. Personally, I like my hot dog with sourcrout (sp??) which is like sour pickled cabbage all shredded up, relish, mustard and ketchup or you can replace the cabbage with fried onions. If you go to The Copper Penny(a restaurant here) when you’re back in Kingston order “the Penny Burger”…it’s my husband’s absolute favorite…lots of shit on this burger including egg and hot peppers. I love Harvey’s hamburgers(fast food place) and NEED extra pickles always:)))
Man, I miss the huge, messy hot dogs with all kinds of stuff inside it.
Great job on the post, abraços!
I think . . . that you made me lose my appetite in that one. HA! we have pretty discusting food eh?
Although, when its in brazil it looks better.
bahahaha
I Love it!!!! That food looks really nice!!! I miss you guys so munch!!!!
Imagine if I’m not at least 2kg more now… =/ here the food is so good :p
Don’t tell me that! I haven’t smelled it… after you try once, you get addicted! I will make one for you when I’m there :p
Well, when I get back we can do some…. because it’s not hard at all… just messy and fat
I haven’t this restaurant, but I will for sure when I’m back! I like your comments a lot, always with a lot of good info! Thanks! keep commenting, please!