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Festa Junina

Brazil's June festivals: bonfires, country dances and a table of sweet and savoury maize dishes.

Paróquia de São Francisco Xavier do Engenho Velho, Rio de Janeiro.
Photo: Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Festa Junina

The June festivals honour St Anthony, St John and St Peter and fall at the Brazilian maize harvest. People dress as country folk and dance the quadrilha round a bonfire. Nearly everything on the table is made of maize: boiled cobs, pamonha steamed in the husk, creamy curau, sweet canjica with milk and cinnamon, cornmeal cake and popcorn. Peanuts give pé-de-moleque and paçoca. The drinks are served hot because it is winter: quentão, cachaça boiled with ginger and spices, and mulled wine.

The dishes

PamonhaFresh maize paste steamed in its husk.MunguzáWhite maize cooked with milk, sugar and cinnamon.CurauSweet maize custard.Pé de molequePeanut and cane sugar brittle.Paçoca de carneCrumbly sweet of ground peanuts.Mulled wineHot spiced wine, served beside quentão on cold nights.
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Festa Junina" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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