Top sirloin cap (picanha) is cooked all over Brazil. At a churrasco it is the cut people look for. Salt only, fat cap on. Costco, Sam’s, and Walmart often label a cap picanha. Those warehouse packs are easy to find. They are not as high quality as a butcher piece or a named shipper. How to buy it: what picanha is. How to cook it: picanha on a kettle grill.
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Toasted cassava flour (farofa), Brazilian tomato-onion sauce (vinagrete), grilled pineapple, juice, guaraná soda, water, and a small cup of Brazilian coffee (cafezinho) sit on the table.
Kit: What to buy.
On the table
Farofa is dry cassava flour (farinha de mandioca) toasted in butter; buy the flour on Amazon or at a Brazilian market, not tapioca starch. Vinagrete is tomato, onion, pepper, oil, vinegar, and salt. Grilled pineapple (abacaxi com canela) shows up at more than one fire. Guaraná is Brazilian soda — Antarctica or Kuat in many US Latin aisles. Cafezinho is a small strong cup of Brazilian coffee (Pilão, 3 Corações).
- What picanha is, and how to buy it
- How to grill picanha on a kettle grill
- Farofa and vinagrete
- Guaraná soda
- Grilled pineapple (abacaxi com canela)
- Pudim de leite
- Desserts after a Brazilian churrasco
- Cafezinho after barbecue
- Vegetables at a Brazilian churrasco
- Potato salad (maionese de batata)
- Garlic bread on the grill (pão de alho)
- Brazilian chocolate fudge balls (brigadeiros)
- Coconut brigadeiros (beijinho)
- Types of Brazilian barbecue grills (churrasqueiras)
From the Southeast
Caipirinha is from the Southeast (São Paulo interior / Rio). Tropeiro beans (feijão tropeiro) are a Minas Gerais pot that shows up at churrasco there.
- Caipirinha
- Tropeiro beans (feijão tropeiro)
- Dobradinha (tripe stew). Minas / national stew, not a skewer.