🇬🇧 Typical foods from Curitiba, Brazil

I have already talked about typical dishes from countries around the world and also from Brazilian states. Now I will talk about the typical foods of the 4 Brazilian cities in which I lived. A text for each city. This is the fourth text.

Curitiba - PR

The first experiences I had in Curitiba restaurants were so bad that I never delved into the typical foods of the city. I have had the experience of tasting the famous barreado, but, like the food in the first restaurants I encountered, it is an extremely poor dish in flavour. For a long time I thought that the people of Curitiba didn't like spicy food (spicy reminds me of chilli but I'm not just referring to this type of flavour). I still don't know if they like it, but I have found some restaurants that serve more flavourful food.

I also tasted the sopa de pinhão. Read about the experience below.

All in the name of information, I also researched other dishes and maybe I'll try them by the end of the year to let you know. Let's give Curitiba food a second chance. Also because in recent years I have discovered some good restaurants in the city.

The main dish typical of the city and the region is barreado, a minced cooked meat, served with cassava flour which, mixed with the meat, must give a consistency such that the dough does not fall off the plate when it is turned down. It is common for restaurant waiters to turn the plate down the customer's head after mixing cassava flour with the meat in front of them. I only tried one which I liked because it came with the prawns and I love the prawns. In addition, the prawns have a mild flavour and the lack of flavour in the barreado underlines its flavour.

I tasted sopa de pinhão at a private event organised by my acquaintances. I didn't die of love. Basically they are cooked pinhão, shell and all, in a pressure cooker. But pinhão can be fine for other things.

Pinhão is very popular in the city and in winter it is very easy to find it even in supermarkets.

A very famous dish is jaguar meat (carne de onça). It is a dish based on raw ground beef (not jaguar!). Remember the steak tartare.

Pão com bolinho is another typical dish. It is a bread stuffed with a fried minced meatball. That way I would buy bread and fried meatballs at the corner bakery, put the meatballs on the bread and eat. And I would find it dry and bland. If any restaurant, bakery, etc. serve pão com bolinho with complementary fillings that make it more interesting than that, read the media kit of this site and prove that pão com bolinho can be better than that.

Other "typical" foods of Curitiba are not typical. They are German, Italian, dishes from other parts of Brazil, etc. which are common in the city. In gastronomic terms Curitiba does not have much identity. If you know other typical foods of Curitiba, please comment.

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Nycka, the Nomad