# The best traditional foods of Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais wood-stove cooking, a mix of indigenous, Portuguese and African heritage, according to Estado de Minas, Receitas Nestlé and guides to Minas cuisine.

- 37 votes · 12 items
- Jun 16, 2025 · Aline Monteiro
- https://even.best/en/l/416/the-best-traditional-foods-of-minas-gerais

## Top 10

1. **Pão de queijo** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Tapioca starch and Minas cheese, the symbol of Minas at breakfast.
2. **Tutu de feijão** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Beans thickened with cassava flour, of African origin, with sausage, crackling and kale.
3. **Feijão tropeiro** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Beans with cassava flour, crackling, sausage, egg and kale, the muleteers' food.
4. **Leitão à pururuca** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Roast suckling pig with puffed, crackling skin.
5. **Frango com quiabo** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Free-range chicken braised slowly with okra, served with angu.
6. **Frango ao molho pardo** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Chicken cooked in its own blood, a Sunday dish in the countryside.
7. **Guava paste with cheese (Romeu e Julieta)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The quintessential Minas dessert.
8. **Canjiquinha com costelinha** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cracked corn cooked with pork ribs.
9. **Torresmo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pork belly fried until it puffs, a bar snack.
10. **Artisan Minas cheese** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Serro and Canastra cheeses, Brazilian intangible heritage.
11. **Vaca atolada** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Beef ribs cooked with cassava until 'stuck' in the broth.
12. **Doce de leite** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Kettle-cooked milk caramel from Viçosa and across the state.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.