If you read this blog frequently, you already know that Schiphol Airport is my destination when I go to Brazil on holidays every year.
Schiphol is a hub for KLM, the airline company that I have chosen to fly to my country for the last three years. I like the service, and the ticket price and believe it or not, I love the food too.
I know everybody knows that an aeroplane meal is not the most exciting gastronomic experience of life.
However, it’s a good experience at KLM flights. And the reason is quite simple: they put extra effort into what they are serving on their aircraft.
I am not just talking about first-class food but also the economic and business classes meals as well.
And they did a good job catering for many like my parents, who needed special treatment (Diabetics and Sodium food) during their flight. It was exactly the way we expected. Tasty and healthy!
To my surprise, my menu was also special, in late November, when I went to Brazil. I had the pleasure of trying the menu designed by the prize-winning Brazilian chef Rodrigo Oliveira for KLM flights from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to Amsterdam.
Rodrigo Oliveira is the chef and owner of the renowned São Paulo restaurant Mocotó, the 16th best restaurant in Latin America by The Restaurant Magazine.
Chosen Brazil’s “Chef of the Year” and “One of 100 most influents personalities”, Rodrigo’s new restaurant “Esquina Mocotó” was voted “Best New Restaurant” in the same year by “Prazeres da Mesa”, Brazil’s leading gastronomic magazine and Paladar / O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper and on April of 2016, it was awarded 1 star on the world-famous Michelin Guide.
The menus served in World Business Class are divided into four cycles during one year. At each cycle, the menus will be changed. In Economy Class, the menus are divided into two cycles, which will be changed every six months.
KLM has been working with top chefs for many years. And I guess it was a success because I heard people on my flight commenting how good the food was. It may be not for all tastes, but it’s a good experience on budget flights anyway.
Here are the menu options designed by Rodrigo Oliveira from November 2016 to January 2017.
As my flight back was during the night, I had dinner and breakfast to try.
My meal: For the starter, I had the salad which was made with Lettuce leaves coleslaw and olives. It was a delicious combination of flavours.
A well-seasoned salad that was balanced with the main course, a Yucca grain with dried meat and roasted vegetables.
This meal reminds me of an “Escondidinho” (like Shepherd`s pie but with much more flavours on it.). It was delicious and it reminded Brazil!
The dessert was a gorgeous Mandioc cake and dulce de leche. A delicate taste of dulce de leche is balanced with the mandioc flavour. Another way of portraying Brazil on a plate. Gorgeous!
Breakfast: Yucca cake with tomato sauce and cheese. Another signature dish that transported me to Brazil automatically. Mandioc is a quite popular ingredient in Brazilian cuisine. It is so diverse that works well together with tomatoes and cheese in this cake. It is light and soft. Lovely to start a day onboard.
Fruits and a vanilla muffin with chocolate chips made the breakfast at KLM a bit It is a shame the photo I took doesn’t do the justice to show you all how tasteful these dishes are.
But I just loved to have the taste of rich, colourful and delicious Northeast Brazilian food on my flight back home. Obrigada KLM!
More food! KLM flights also provide some taste of Dutch cuisine like the famous Punselie’s Stroopkoekje, the cookie filled with caramel cinnamon. There were loads of these little pleasures available. Love them!
Discover more about the delicious Brazilian menu in partnership with SkyChefs here:
