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 Questions and answers
about Barreado? |
 What is Barreado? |
Where can I find it? |
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A Brazilian cooking tipical dish which has indescribable taste and gives
an highly new vigour. It was created about 200 years ago by backwoodsmen
who lived in Paraná littoral. It begun to be introducing in "entrudo"
party, called today "Carnaval". After it barreado was incorporated
to religious parties from Morretes and Antonina and actually is considered
the official tipical dish from Parana. |
You can find barreado in any Morretes or Antonina's restaurant (Parana),
where there's the Annual Barreado Party. It also can be found in best stores
which work with it in Curitiba and big cities from Brasil. In United States
there are many restaurants specialized in Brazilian tipical meals serving
Barreado. But take care, just few restaurants offer the real barreado. |
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How is it made? |
What's the dish composition? |
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It's a stew with ox fibrous meat (beef), no bones, no fatness, seasoned
with tropical condiments. The real barreado is made in a clay pot (clay
cooker), where all the ingredients are put in layer covered with banana
tree leafs. After it, the cooker is cemented with a flour mortar to avoid
vapour out. You just have to coddle it in firewood about 18 hours until
it's ready. |
Barreado's usually served in small clay pots with individual portions and
trimming white rice, fine flour, pepper and caturra (headstrong) banana.
You can add stew cole salad, boast, tallow scrap portions, olive oil, orange,
and milanesa banana. Is recommended to put it on a table's little stove
to maintain hot content. You can also put the main cooker on the little
stove. |
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What can I drink with? |
What about the real barreado features? |
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Just take a snort of pure and good white cana alcohol (cachaça) is
the best appetizer. If you don't have it, you can drink caipirinha, steinhäger
or cognac. Certainly, it help to sharpen the taste. During the tasting you
can drink a cold draught beer, beer or wine. Don't worry about dose, that's
why the alcohol has a little or no effect when you're eating barreado. |
Firstly e most important is the taste. The real barreado has an unmistakable
taste and an unforgetable scent to ones who had tasted it. You can feel
the scent about 100 meters long from stove. It looks like a redder spilled
milk. |
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How can I eat barreado? |
There's a simplest receipt of barreado? |
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There's no ritual to eat barreado. One big table, rounded with friends,
and a lot of fun is enough. The utensils are: dinner-plate, fork, knife
and wooden-spoon to serve it. Put in plate two quarter of barreado, one
quarter of rice and one quarter of flour. The fatal taste is in all of these
contents when they're togheter tempered with Indian pepper as you taste.
Some slices of caturra banana do the counterpoint and enhance the dish taste. |
Yes, There's a lot of variations from original receipt that allow everyone
to prepare one simple Barreado version using a cooking-stove and a pressure-cooker.
Certainly it takes fewer cooking time, about 4 hours. However, just take
care about the final taste, it may be different from real Barreado. We sorry
about indiscriminate use of improvised receipts, including the ones made
by Antonina merchants who are changing the original dish. |
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Can I take barreado to home? |
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Yes, you can store barreado in the freezer for any time you wish. Experts
say, the older the barreado, the better it is. Is recommended to be conserved
in negative temperature and warming up just enough to consume immediately. |
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