Feijoada
Brazil's black bean and pork stew, simmered for hours and served with rice, orange and toasted cassava flour.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 600 g dried black beans
- 2.5 l water
- 500 g pork ribs
- 300 g smoked pork sausage
- 250 g salted pork or bacon
- 400 g beef short rib
- 2 pieces onions, diced
- 6 pieces garlic cloves, crushed
- 3 pieces bay leaves
- 1 pieces orange
- 150 g cassava flour (farofa)
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- to taste salt
- 400 g white rice, to serve
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 7950 kcal · P 478g · C 652.9g · F 369.3g
Estimated from 13 of 14 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Soak the black beans overnight. Soak any heavily salted meats separately, changing the water twice.
- 2Simmer the beans with the bay leaves and 2.5 litres of fresh water for 1 hour.
- 3Add the tougher meats — ribs and short rib — and cook another hour.
- 4Add the sausage and salted pork and simmer a further 45 minutes, until everything is tender and the liquid has darkened and thickened.
- 5Fry the onion and garlic in olive oil until golden, then ladle in a cupful of beans and mash them into the pan. Return this to the pot — it thickens the stew without flour.
- 6Add a wide strip of orange peel for the last 20 minutes, then remove it.
- 7Season with salt only at this point; the cured meats carry most of the salt.
- 8Rest at least 30 minutes, and serve with rice, orange segments and farofa.
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Questions and answers
How long does Feijoada take to make?
About 220 minutes: 40 min prep and 180 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Feijoada?
14 ingredients: dried black beans, water, pork ribs, smoked pork sausage, salted pork or bacon, beef short rib, onions, garlic cloves, bay leaves, orange, cassava flour, olive oil and 2 more.
How many servings does this Feijoada recipe make?
8 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Feijoada?
About 994 kcal, with 59.7 g protein, 81.6 g carbohydrate and 46.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Feijoada?
Feijoada comes from Brazilian cuisine.
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