Three built-in brick churrasqueiras with chimneys, long metal skewers, and a grate leaning against the brick

By region

Recipes are listed under Sul, Nordeste, and Across Brazil.

Open a hub and cook from there.

Kit: What to buy.

Sul

Rio Grande do Sul: coarse salt (sal grosso) on beef, beef plate ribs (costela) over embers, fogo de chão, young chicken (galeto), grilled polenta (polenta grelhada), potato salad (maionese de batata), fresh garlic pork sausage (linguiça toscana), garlic bread (pão de alho). Sul posts.

Nordeste

Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and the rest of the Northeast: grilling cheese (queijo coalho; halloumi is the US stand-in), baião de dois, savory arroz de leite, cassava (macaxeira; frozen yuca in the Latin freezer), sun-dried salted beef (carne de sol), homemade juice (suco). Nordeste posts.

Sudeste / Minas

Minas Gerais puts tropeiro beans (feijão tropeiro) on the churrasco table: cooked beans, cassava flour, sausage, and egg. That pot is tropeiro beans. Caipirinha is here too.

Across Brazil

Top sirloin cap (picanha), toasted cassava flour (farofa), Brazilian tomato-onion sauce (vinagrete), potato salad (maionese de batata), grilled pineapple. Shared posts.