Archive for October, 2009

Brazilian culinary realities: Acai

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

This is a very thick frozen paste, similar in consistency to a fruit ice cream. Typically in this dish, which is called “Acai on tizhela, add syrup, guarana, and sugar. Above it can pour down nuts or muesli. Mixture of two outstanding components of the Amazon rich in vitamins and stimulants and sugar, creates a powerful down energy. Calling this dessert is not quite correct, since such a dessert substitute for the effect of a full meal. Acai fruit is very high-calorie and rich in iron, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and vitamins B1 and B2. It is not surprising that athletes appreciate the forces which give Acai fruit, and mothers are fed this nutritious fruit of their children! Many Brazilians love to drink from the Acai fruit with added water, sugar and cassava starch. Of Acai palm trees can be obtained, and other useful products. Palmito, or palm cabbage - a soft white mass obtained from the apical buds on this tree - one of the favorite delicacies, which are used in salads. This berry is mined mainly in the Amazon, although it appeared plantations in other regions of Brazil. Method of production has its roots in pre-Columbian times: at the feet of collector attached woven from palm fiber loops covering the trunk. The traditional population of the Amazon not particularly approve of the use Acai as a sweet dessert. It is traditionally used pultpu berries, mixed with manioc or yams as a side dish to the daily meal - fish and other products. The collected berries are typically delivered by boat to the markets of the Amazonian cities. After removal of the soft layer of berries, seeds are very strong. Acai Seeds for centuries the Indians developed various jewelry. Seeds can acquire a different color after using natural dyes. Acai palm (palm cabbage) - slender tropical tree, growing well in humid climates lowlands, wetlands, and especially in the mouth of the Amazon and Tocantins rivers in the state of Par?. This tree is distributed in areas near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the Brazilian states of Para and Bahia. If you came to the place where this tree grows, it is likely your feet in the water, and on the forehead you sweat. Acai palm trunk thin, but strong, up to 23 meters in height, crowned with leafy crown.
From August to December at the Acai palm tree can be seen 6.8 bunches, consisting of 700-900 fruits the size of a cherry. But how to get to the palms of these fruits? Some locals weave belt from the fibers over the stunted palms Asai and turn them into a noose for the feet. Firmly pressing the feet to the trunk, the man holding hands on the trunk and climbs on it, like a tightrope. So he gets to the top. Log houses a bunch of fruit, he throws them on the ground, because this fruit can be damaged, and descends in the same way as the upstairs, only to have fruit.