Common ingredients for Brazil

These are common ingredients you may see on packaging and menus in Brazil. Local words are left unchanged so they stay readable in the original language; translate this page if you want supporting text and English names in your own language.

• alho (garlic)
• azeite de dendê (dendê oil)

  Distinctive red palm oil used in Bahian cuisine

• bacon
• banha de porco (pork fat)
• banha de porco (pork lard)
• caldo de carne (beef stock)
• caldo de galinha (chicken bouillon)

  Often sold as bouillon cubes (tabletes)

• caldo de galinha (chicken broth)
• caldo de peixe (fish stock)
• camarão (shrimp)
• camarão seco (dried shrimp)
• cebola (onion)
• farinha de rosca (bread crumbs)
• frango (chicken)
• glutamato monossódico (monosodium glutamate)

  Commonly known as Ajinomoto

• leite (milk)
• leite condensado (sweetened condensed milk)
• linguiça defumada (smoked sausage)
• linguiça suína (pork sausage)
• manteiga (butter)
• óleo de palma (palm oil)

  Known as azeite de dendê in the Northeast

• ovo (egg)
• paleta suína (pork shoulder)
• peixe branco (firm white fish)
• queijo (cheese)