curau
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Curau () is a Brazilian sweet custard-like dessert made from the pressed juice of unripe maize, cooked with milk and sugar.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- jam
- Part of
- Brazilian cuisine
- Country of origin
- Brazil
- Material used
- milk
- Image
- Canjica1.jpg
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- different from
- canjica
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- Curau
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Typical recipes
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Curau () is a Brazilian sweet custard-like dessert made from the pressed juice of unripe maize, cooked with milk and sugar.
The term curau is used mostly the southern states such as São Paulo, Mato Grosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul. It is also called corá () in Minas Gerais, papa-de-milho 'corn porridge' in Rio de Janeiro, and canjica in the northern half of Brazil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “curau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.