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"MMMM! I love plantains, especially sweet ones. This is a lower fat method of making "maduros" without the use of oil and frying in a pan."

Ingredients: cooking spray, plantains...

"I love churrasqueira chicken and have been looking for a recipe to make it myself. I found this on Breakfast Television Toronto's web site. They got the recipe from Roasty Chicken Churrasqueira which is in the town of Maple just north of Toronto. A friend told me that she's used this sauce for fish and shrimp, too. I've tried it on shrimp..."

Ingredients: garlic, lemon juice, olive oil...

"A really good, really rich South Amercian cookie, great with coffee or chocolate. From Leith's Latin American Cooking."

Ingredients: cinnamon, brazil nuts...

"I don't remember where I got this recipe, but I have tweaked it here and there over the years. My family likes this version because it is not sloppy wet like so many others out there. However, this recipe can be served wet too."

Ingredients: dried basil leaves, hot sauce...

"This is from "Cuisines of Portguguese Encounters", which as recipes from the author's travels thru Portugal and its former colonies. This dish was made by Portuguese settlers combining their foods with the customs of the Tupi-Guarani Indians It's now part of Brazil's national cuisine. I haven't made it yet."

Ingredients: green bananas, rice...

"I love canadian bacon and wanted to spring something new on my monthly dinner club participants. I read a similar recipe in a cookbook, but concocted my own version. It was a huge hit and a mainstay in my house."

Ingredients: bow tie pasta, fresh ground black pepper...

"This poor recipe started in Portugal, then traveled to Brazil during colonization, and now, somehow, ended up in my kitchen. My husband requested this, but I could not find a definitive recipe since there seem to be two distinct versions, one with fresh cilantro and one without. Also coconut milk is not always used. Some used squid and cod as well..."

Ingredients: coconut milk, chili oil...

"This is from "Cuisines of Portuguese Encounters", where the author put together the dishes she encountered while going through the Portugal and its former colonies. I haven't made it yet. Times don't include the 2-hour chillng time, nor the time to precook a few ingredients."

Ingredients: shrimp, eggs, cooked rice...

"This is a Brazilian pot pie that I have put my twist on it that is the shrimp filling that is very mouth watering. This is my Dad's crust recipe. It's very flaky and melts in your mouth. It looks like is very complicated but is not. Please try! You won't regret it!!!
BTW the crust is the best part so whatever you want to fill your..."

Ingredients: pepper, shrimp, egg yolks...