♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're gonna have you try
a few different Brazilian veggies. - I hate veggies.
Because they are disgusting.
- Nope, I'm gonna hide under this table.
- (whimpering) Okay, I'm scared!
- I'm scared because they might suck
exactly like the Japanese ones did.
- I love vegetables.
- It's better than different weird cheeses.
- (FBE) All these veggies may not have originated in Brazil,
but are commonly used in Brazilian cuisine.
- I've always wanted to go to Brazil.
'Cause it's really famous in soccer there.
It just looks really nice.
- I just think of a bunch of American stuff.
I can't think of any strictly Brazilian stuff.
- First one, here I come.
- (FBE) Here is your first vegetable.
The raw version is your left,
and the cooked is on your right.
- What? How is this orange?
- Oh, it looks better now.
That looks strange.
- The raw version looks like a zucchini or a cucumber
that got dipped in chocolate.
- Aah! It's so hard to get.
It's so sloppy.
- (gulping)
That's disgusting!
It tastes like flavorless gelatin.
- It's like a lot of spices,
and then it's, like, in a paste.
- It tastes like the little garnishes on some of the food that you get.
- I thought it was gonna be cheesy.
It tastes like beans.
- (FBE) This is mandioca.
In America, it is known as a yucca root.
This serving is a seafood dish called bobó de camarão,
but Brazilians will also use it to make a gluten-free flour
and it can be used to make puddings, cakes, and biscuits.
- So that was a root?
- How can this thing be part of a muffin?
- If I ever have a garden,
this is probably the first vegetable I'll get.
- (FBE) Here is your next vegetable.
- (softly) What is that?
- This looks like a yam.
- Probably the inside looks--
I feel like this is like a sweet potato.
- It doesn't look too bad.
But it tastes really sweet.
- What?
Most sweet potatoes are orange, but then this is yellow.
This is a sweet potato, right?
- It's more of a fruity taste to me.
Nope. There's the veggie part.
- It tastes like a dessert would taste.
- (FBE) That was a Brazilian sweet potato,
or yam puree.
- I have never gotten something like this correct.
- (FBE) It's commonly eaten as a side dish
to have with breakfast, or as a dessert.
- I would like that for breakfast.
- That's pretty yummy.
- Here is your next vegetable.
- Ew!
That one looks meh and that one looks yuck!
- That looks like a pepper to me.
- This looks like a vegetable.
That looks like alien meat.
- It smells like a burrito.
- (disapprovingly) Mm-mm!
- That's not so bad, actually.
- Oh my gosh! Tastes great again!
- It's like a lot of spices together, I'm noticing, with these,
and then it's spicy, of course.
It's mushy.
I think there's some sort of meat in it.
- (FBE) That was okra.
Grown in tropical regions, this vegetable is also known
as lady fingers for its long, thin shape
and pointed end.
Caruru is also a very popular Brazilian seafood dish.
- It had the tasting of like-- it tasted like a seafood.
- I get why it's called lady fingers.
You know how you get the fake nails with the points?
That's what these look like.
- Look at my beautiful lady fingers.
- (FBE) Here is another vegetable for you to try.
- Looks like beans.
- Which one is the cooked?
- This turned into this?
- This looks like a masterpiece or something like...
"Bonjour, mademoiselle!"
- It smells like the ocean.
- Hmmm, it tastes like beans.
- Why is that so spicy?
Wow.
- It tastes like fishy beans.
- I like American beans better.
- (FBE) This is a black-eyed pea.
It is made into a bean dough that is deep fried in dende oil
and used for this dish called acarajé.
Brazilians eat this as a snack or street food,
commonly served with shrimp fritters.
- So that's why it has the outside like deep fried chicken.
- I get why it's called a black-eyed pea.
It has a black eye.
- I don't like regular beans.
I like black beans more.
This, compared to black beans, is a whole different improvement to me.
- (FBE) Here is the last vegetable.
- (softly) What?
This looks like a pear!
- It looks like a giant pea with a pear inside it.
- Ooh, it smells good.
It smells like when you go to a Korean barbecue place.
- It doesn't have a taste, really.
The texture of it is for sure like an onion.
- Oh, that tastes garlicky.
- (exhaling sharply)
It can't kill me!
Or can it?
That was like the texture of a pickle.
It's spicy, then it has a lot of pepper on it.
But it's actually better than I expected.
- (FBE) This vegetable is called chayote.
It belongs in the gourd family.
In Brazil, it is typically eaten in potato salads like this one,
called Chu Chu. - "Chu Chu"?
- I have never had a squash before.
- I like it.
I'd have it more often.
- (FBE) Final question:
which one of these Brazilian vegetables
would you recommend people eat? - The sweet potato.
- Acarajé.
- I would actually eat Chu Chu.
- Okra, I recommend that.
- The Chu Chu.
Because of the sweet and garlic taste to it.
- I would recommend the sweet potato
because it is one of the normalest ones
that they had.
It tasted good.
- I'd recommend the sweet potato.
Now I know what they eat there.
And then, if I go to a store, I'd be like, "Do you have any mandioca?"
And then they'd be like... - (FBE giggling)
- (as Brazilian) "How do you know that?"
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- Bye!
- Hey, everyone, Alyssa here, a producer from the React channel.
Thanks so much for checking out this episode
of Brazilian veggies.
Let us know in the comments if you eat your vegetables.