Cuisine of Natal for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

Cooking traditions of Africans, Portuguese, French, and Indians are intertwined in the cuisine of Natal. There are three major pizzerias with fixed prices in the city. These are Bella Natal, Vila Mangiare, and Cantina La Nonna. If you want to taste fish and seafood dishes, it is better to look for places closer to the coastline. For example, you can visit Camarones. Very tasty shrimps are served here. The place is never empty. So be ready to wait until a table is available. Tasty fish is also served in the Cantina de Praia. If you want, you can search for places with the most common European, American, and Asian dishes. There are many of them here due to the numerous tourists.

If you decided to try Brazilian cuisine, then start your acquaintance with it from feijoada. This dish is very popular among the citizens. But there is no single recipe for cooking it. Meat, most often pork, beans, pepper sauce, and cassava flour are added to feijoada in all versions. All other ingredients and cooking details depend on the cook. Feijoada is served in the most common version with cabbage or oranges. Most attention is paid to meat dishes in Brazilian cuisine. Seafood is a little less common here. Beans, rice, corn or tomatoes are included in many recipes.

Local pies are suitable as a quick snack. You can buy them in small cafes, from street sellers, and on markets. Meat, shrimp or olives are usually used as a filling. If you want to order some snacks at the restaurant, you can take fried meatballs, stuffed olives or boiled corn. The choice of first courses is quite large here. Brazilians love soups. You can find both meat broth with rice or cabbage and vegetarian soups with corn and beans. If you want something unusual, order a dish with lamb, potatoes, bread, and rice. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

You should start your acquaintance with meat dishes of Natal with churrasco. This is the local equivalent of shish kebab. Small pieces of shish kebab are fried strung on metal rods. They are served with tomato sauce. Baked chicken legs, or lombo de porco, fried pork, and a stew of chicken, sweet pepper, and ham may taste familiar. Do you want something more unusual? Then taste the duck in cassava sauce, salted meat Carne de sol or sarapaten from boiled pork heart and liver with onions and tomatoes. You can also find crocodile yacare and turtle stew in Natal restaurants.

You can order Takaka from fish dishes. This is a thick soup of dried shrimp with tapioca and garlic. Soup of fish and seafood which called moqueca is also tasty. If you want to feel like a real gourmet, then order a lobster in coconut milk. It's not cheap but it's worth it. You should also taste fish in a sauce made from coconut milk and its pulp, and frigideira made from dough with shellfish and fish fillet. This dish is served in special pots. Itapoa pudding with crabmeat and shrimp with caviar, pepper and onion karuru are also interesting. You should taste the dish of the indigenous inhabitants tacaca no tucupi. Cassava, shrimps, Jumbo, and sauce are its ingredients.

If you like desserts, you should taste the "tree of welfare". This is roll with custard fruit, walnuts, and honey. You can also order "son of carnival" – small balls of flour with vanilla, zest, and sugar. You should pay attention to the pavé of condensed milk, egg yolks, cream, and chocolate. Rocambole with fudge is also delicious. If you want to taste something low-calorie, you should pay attention to the mango dessert and banana jelly. Bananas with apple in caramel are also delicious.

Coffee is a popular soft drink in Natal. Many Brazilians can drink up to thirty cups of coffee a day. So it's no wonder that coffee shops and coffee machines are everywhere here. Espresso is the most popular. But there is nothing difficult in finding other options for making a popular drink. Brazilians usually drink coffee from special cups called demitasses. Soda with guava juice and juices are very popular in Natal. There is a wide variety of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails here. Cane vodka Caipirinha, cachaca, wine, rum, and beer are popular in the city.