Sagu (dessert)

Sagu is a traditional dessert of southern Brazil made from tapioca pearls, sugar, and red wine, giving it an appearance sometimes described as a sweet caviar of small purple balls with an intense but delicate flavor. It originates in the Serra Gaucha region of northeastern Rio Grande do Sul and is eaten across Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Parana, served warm, cold, or at room temperature under the alternate name sagu de vinho. The dessert reflects the blending of European culinary traditions, chiefly Italian and German, brought by immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with cassava-derived tapioca, a starch native to South America that stands in for the sago-palm pearls of the dish Southeast Asian namesake. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/