Brazilian Cooking Class in Copacabana: Make Feijoada & Caipirinha
Cook five Brazilian dishes and two drinks in one morning, then eat what you made.
A four-hour cooking class in Copacabana where you prepare feijoada or seafood moqueca alongside cheese with pepper jam, sautéed sausages, brigadeiro, caipirinha and coconut shake. A chef teaches ingredient selection and the cultural history behind each dish. Hotel pickup is included, and you take home the skills to remake them at home.
What’s included
- All ingredients for feijoada or seafood moqueca, queijo coalho with pepper jam, sautéed sausages and onions, brigadeiro, caipirinha and coconut shake.
- roundtrip hotel pickup.
- live guide in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
- Every day 15:30
Information
Learn to cook feijoada, moqueca and brigadeiro with a Copacabana chef who shares ingredient selection secrets and dish history, including hotel pickup and all ingredients.
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The experience
The class starts with the chef walking you through ingredient selection: what makes produce fresh, which cuts of meat work best, how to spot quality in the market. You'll then cook alongside the chef rather than watch a demonstration. Depending on the day, you'll prepare either feijoada (black bean stew with sausages and sundried beef) or seafood moqueca (Brazilian fish stew), then move through queijo coalho with geleia de pimenta (cheese cubes with homemade pepper jam), linguica with cebola flambada na cachaça (sautéed sausages and onions in cachaça), and brigadeiro (chocolate truffle). Between the savory dishes, you'll make a caipirinha and a coconut shake.
The chef weaves the history of each dish into the cooking: why these foods matter to Brazilian culture, where they come from, how families have made them for generations. You're not just learning technique. You're learning why these recipes exist. All ingredients are provided, so you arrive ready to cook, not to shop. At the end, you eat everything you've made, tasting the dishes while they're fresh.
Hotel pickup is included in the booking, so you don't arrange transport to the kitchen. The class runs four hours. A guide speaks English, Spanish or Portuguese, depending on what you request when you confirm your pickup time and hotel location.
Top questions
Can I be picked up at my hotel?
You can choose: pickup at your hotel, or go straight to the meeting point. When you book, you choose your hotel from 147 pickup locations; if yours isn’t listed, you can type in your address. Pickup is about 30 minutes before departure.
What languages is the tour guided in?
Live guide in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Can children come?
Yes. Ticket types: Infant (under 5).
What's the difference between feijoada and moqueca, and do I get to choose which one I cook?
Feijoada is a black bean stew with hearty sausages and sundried beef. Moqueca is a Brazilian fish stew. The chef prepares one or the other depending on the day's menu, so you cook whichever is scheduled for your class.
Do I need cooking experience to join this class?
No. The chef teaches ingredient selection and technique from the start, so beginners learn alongside anyone with kitchen skills. The focus is on learning Brazilian cooking, not on prior experience.
Will I actually eat the food at the end, or just cook it?
You eat everything you make. After cooking feijoada or moqueca, the cheese, sausages, brigadeiro, caipirinha and coconut shake, you sit down and taste the dishes while they're fresh.
Operated by Rio Carioca Tour Ltda. Explorevia does not run this tour: we compare it with similar options, and you book it with our booking partner.
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Brazilian Cooking Class in Copacabana: Make Feijoada & Caipirinha
4h · EN · ES · PT
from US$ 140 per person
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