Feijoada is a well known and a popular Brazilian stew which is prepared with black beans along with meats, but i tried making them as a vegetarian stew using veggies and black beans..This stew is originally developed by the slaves to get use of less meat, but here am gonna make this black bean stew with vegetables spiced with garlic cloves, cumin powder, pepper powder etc..This goes for bit of work eventhough this stew is truly worth to try out...Serve this delicious and nutritious stew with steamed rice and greens, its a complete,filling and wholesome food..



2cups Black beans (soaked overnight)
2nos Bayleaves
2nos Garlic (chopped finely)
1no Tomato (chopped)

For Stew:
1no Onion(big & chopped)
2nos Carrots (chopped)
1no Celery rib (chopped)
2nos Garlic cloves (chopped)
1no Small dry chilli
1tsp Cumin powder
1tbsp Dry oregano
Pepper powder
Salt
Parsley leaves (chopped)

Pressure cook the soaked beans with bay leaves, garlic and tomatoes for 3whistles...Meanwhile heat a enough olive oil and saute the onions,carrots, garlic and celery until the onions turns transculent, now add the cumin powder, pepper powder, dry chilli and oregano, cook for few minutes...add the veggies to the cooked beans and enough water to the beans and veggies, the mixture should be soup not dry..

Cook this mixture in simmer, adjust the seasoning and cook until the beans turns tender, finally add the parsley leaves and serve along with hot steaming rice or simply enjoy with breads..

Curau de Milho, a simple dessert quite served in Brazil during the month of june in parties called Festa Juninas, which celebrates popular saints like St John,Peter and so on..These celebrations are also important in North Europe country..This sweet custard like pudding is made from the juice of unripen corn kernels,cooked with milk, sugar and butter..To prepare the curau, the corn kernels are grated off the ears and put into a cloth bag. The bag is then squeezed while adding the milk little by little, so as to extract as much juice as possible from the ground corn mass.The extracted liquid is combined with the sugar and any other ingredients, and thickened to a creamy consistency by cooking on the stove for about 45 minutes stirring frequently. The cream is then poured into appropriate dessert cups, muffin molds, shallow baking pans..The curau may be served warm or cool. It is typically dusted with powdered cinnamon..But i went for sweet corn kernels and grounded them along with milk which was quite easier than the traditional way of making this curau..



3cups Sweet corn kernels (fresh or tinned)
2cups Milk
3tbsps Sugar or as per need
1tbsp Butter
Few cinnamon powder

Grind the half of the corn kernels with half of the milk, blend for bit coarse paste, strain this grounded corn in a pan, do the same process with the remaining corn kernels..Bring boil to the corn milk in medium heat, add the sugar and butter, stir continously until the corn milk will be creamy consistency..

Pour it in small ramekins or dessert cups and sprinkle the cinnamon powder over the pudding..Serve warm or cold..

Beijinho de Coco is a Brazilian sweet which is actually prepared for children birthdays. But it's not only delicious for the little ones also for everyone and its quite a traditional candy in Brazilian's birthday parties, this coconut kiss is prepared simply with sweetened condensed milk, dessicated coconut, butter..Quite an easy candy na, yep this candy gets ready within 10minutes and i never prepared a candy in such a less time.. There are various way of making this candies, some may go for coconut milk, egg yolks and sweetened condensed milk, eventhough i went for simple and quick version..I enjoyed preparing and having this cute looking candies, traditionally this candies are served along with a clove inserted in their top, which turned this candies more cute..



1cup Sweetened condensed milk
1tbsp Butter
1/4cup Dessicated coconut
Cloves per need

Pour the sweetened condensed milk in a heavy bottomed pan and cook in simmer along with butter, dont forget to stir continously until the milk gets thickens, after 10minutes once it gets thickens pour the thickened milk over a plate and let them got slightly cool...Make small balls from this thickened milk and roll them over the dessicated coconut, insert a clove over the top of this candy..Store in fridge overnight before serving..