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Le dessert au cacao du brésil: le brigadeiro
A small sweet and chocolatey ball, the brigadeiro is sure to catch the eye of any Brazilian with a sweet tooth. Our journalist Anne-Laure Desarnauts went to meet chef Juliana Motter, at the head of the first tea room in São Paulo entirely dedicated to to these little treats Pierre Raffard, food geographer, talks to us about the link that brigadeiros have with the political history of the country, the introduction of coffee to Brazil and the density of Brazilian flora.

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To your pots!
For those with a sweet tooth, we offer you a brigadeiros recipe, easy to reproduce at home. Put on your most beautiful apron!

 

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The recipe for brigadeiros

 

Ingredients for 20 brigadeiros: 

 

1 bottle of lait concentré sucré

2 tbsp. Ã s. cocoa powder

20 g of dark chocolate

10 cl of crème fraîche

40 g of chocolate shavings

60 ml of coffee

 

Preparation steps: 

 

Melt the dark chocolate in a bain-marie.

 

Pour the condensed milk into a saucepan with the cocoa powder and mix with a whisk.

 

Place the saucepan over low heat and stir constantly so that the mixture does not stick.

 

Pour in the melted chocolate while continuing to mix.

 

Add the crème fraîche.

 

When small bubbles appear and the preparation comes off the bottom of the pan, remove it from the heat.

 

Transfer to a salad bowl and leave to cool for 12 hours.

 

Grease your hands with butter so that the dough does not stick to your fingers and form small balls.

 

Finally, roll them in the chocolate shavings.