Brazilian
Pure de Batata (Brazilian Mashed Potatoes)
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Pure de Batata (Brazilian Mashed Potatoes) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Peel and chunk the potatoes and boil in salted water until tender, about 18 minutes.
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Drain well and return to the hot pot.
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Mash with the warm milk and butter until smooth.
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Season with salt and serve hot.
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Serve it with
A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pure de Batata (Brazilian Mashed Potatoes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pure de Batata (Brazilian Mashed Potatoes) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Arroz Branco (Brazilian White Rice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 290 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 47 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 660 mg
- Saturated fat
- 5 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pure de Batata (Brazilian Mashed Potatoes) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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