# The most typical dishes of Paraíba

Sun-dried beef, goat buchada, free-range chicken, fried needlefish and red rice: Paraíba's coastal and backlands cooking.

- 66 votes · 18 items
- Oct 9, 2018 · o_saudavel
- https://even.best/en/l/3660/the-most-typical-dishes-of-paraiba

## Top 18

1. **Red rice** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Red rice grown in the semi-arid backlands.
2. **Goat buchada** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Goat offal cooked in the stomach, a backlands delicacy.
3. **Sun-dried beef** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Sun-dried beef, born between Paraíba and the Seridó around 1720.
4. **Free-range chicken** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Stewed free-range chicken.
5. **Crab stew** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Crab stew.
6. **Pirão** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Broth thickened with cassava flour.
7. **Panelada** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Stew of fresh beef and offal.
8. **Xerém** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Cooked cracked corn.
9. **Rubacão** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Red rice with green beans, curd cheese and cream.
10. **Baião de dois** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Rice and beans cooked together.
11. **Cabidela chicken** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Chicken cooked in its own blood.
12. **Fried needlefish** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Fried needlefish.
13. **Coconut fish stew** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fish stewed in coconut milk.
14. **Mungunzá** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — White hominy cooked with coconut milk.
15. **Corn couscous** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Corn couscous.
16. **Umbuzada** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Umbu fruit and milk drink.
17. **Canjica and pamonha** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Green corn sweets of the June festivals.
18. **Brejo cachaça** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Cachaças from the Brejo, among Brazil's best.

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