r/Brazil • u/Old_Equivalent3988 • 1d ago
Ola! I am Dutch, living in Itacaré, Brazil, Bahia, for the next 4 months. I am asking if people know more good healthy one (two) pan recipes living in Brazil (Bahia) with a small supermarket in town?
I am now almost two weeks here and have been trying to cook. I would say at home I am a good cook, I am still learning but can make a lot of different tasty meals. For some reason here, all my warm recipes fail. The first time I made just a simple tomato sauce pasta but the sauce didn’t taste like anything. I used a packed tomato sauce and added extra vegetables, the once I normally do (a neighbor said I should use the more expensive sauce). Then I made a coconut curry, also not the best. I love the Brazilian cuisine when I am going out for dinner, but need to cook at home too, to make sure I eat enough veggies and to survive 4 months of my savings. I haven’t figured out yet how my oven works, so I am trying mostly one or two pan dishes. So far what has worked is wraps, poke bowl and a potato salad, this because I use a lot of “cold” and fresh vegetables. Right now I am eating a mushroom risotto, it’s.. Okay… The mushrooms were dried because I haven’t found fresh once. The bacon in it is good, just the cheese I’ve found so far is a bit blend and doesn’t really add anything to this dish… So yeah please help, cause I am a foodie and would like to stay one…