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Pará

Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. The capital and largest city is Belém, located at the Marajó bay, near the estuary of the Amazon river. Its estimated population was 8,602,865 in 2019.

Featured Dishes from Pará

Creme de manga

Creme de manga

Blended mango, ice cream and condensed milk

Acai

Acai

Palm berry, made into beverages and smoothies

Caldeirada

Caldeirada

Fish stew with potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers

Caruru

Caruru

Shrimp and okra gumbo made with palm oil, serve with, for example, rice, acaraje

Maniçoba

Maniçoba

Boiled manioc (cassava) leaves with salted or smoked meats, serve with rice and farinha (cassava meal)

Pato no tucupi

Pato no tucupi

Roasted and shredded duck served with tucupi sauce

Picadinho

Picadinho

Stewed beef and vegetables

Piracuí

Piracuí

Shredded or crushed dried salted fish, mixed with cassava flour, olive oil and onion

Pirarucu de casaca

Pirarucu de casaca

Salted and dried pirarucu fish is rehydrated and cooked with fried bananas, cassava flour, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, olives

Tacacá

Tacacá

Soup with jambu (paracress), dried shrimp, yellow peppers, spicy chili peppers, garlic, herbs, tucupi sauce

Vatapá Paraense

Vatapá Paraense

Pará-style vatapa, may be made with tucupi

Canudinho

Side, Snack, Appetizer

Canudinho

Horn-shaped pastry, commonly with a sweet filling such as coconut, pastry crème, doce de leite (dulce de leche), chocolate, may also be filled with savory ingredients like chicken, shrimp

Tucupi

Side, Snack, Appetizer

Tucupi

Sauce prepared from juice extracted from poisonous cassava (doce manioc), commonly served with duck (pato no tucupi) and fish (peixe no tucupi), tacacá Warning: Cassava extract contains cyanide and is toxic/poisonous if it is not prepared correctly. Tucupi is not widely available outside the Amazon Basin