Brazilian feijoada

Brazilian feijoada is a traditional Brazilian dish that we all love, right? It is a dish rich in flavors and ingredients, which comes with meat, beans and lots of seasonings.

It is a very popular dish in the south and southeast, usually served on Wednesdays, Saturdays or Sundays.

A feijoada It is a national and original dish from Brazil, which is loved and acclaimed by most people in our country.

It has Portuguese and African influences, but this dish is one of the centers of Brazilian culture, you can feel it with every bite.

Combining black beans, a variety of pork and beef meats, and strong seasonings, Brazilian feijoada is more than just a simple meal.

Many people divide feijoada into complete or light, generally the complete one is accompanied by various pork meats such as sausage, paio, ear and tail which are not very conventional, while the light feijoada comes with sausage, dried meat and ribs.

Brazilian feijoada recipe

See what ingredients are needed to prepare your delicious Brazilian feijoada right at home:

• 1kg of black beans;
• 2 smoked or salted sausages;
• 1 salted pork tail;
• 4 bay leaves;
• ½ kg of salted pork ribs;
• water as much as you need;
• 3 cloves of minced garlic;
• crushed chili pepper;
• ½ kg of smoked calabresa sausage;
• 3 onions, diced;
• ¼ kg of bacon smoked;
• 1kg of dried meat;
• ½ kg of salted pork loin;
• 2 sausages;
• 2 salted pig ears;
• 2 salted pig's feet;
• ½ cup of oil.

To prepare, start by choosing the beans and leaving them to soak for 12 hours. In the meantime, wash the saltier meats well and leave them to soak for 12 hours as well. If possible, change the water twice.

A tip: leave it like this for one night, that way you don't have to wait a long time without being able to cook.

In a pan with plenty of water and bay leaves, cook the beans, and in the meantime, set aside another pan, add water and cook the salted meats for half an hour.

When it's finished cooking, drain the water and set aside. As soon as the beans start to soften, add the meat, sausage and paio. Let it cook on low heat for about 2 or 3 hours.

In another pan, add oil and sauté the spices separately, and with a ladle, add some of the beans and mash well.

When this ladle of beans with seasonings starts to boil, transfer everything to the pan in which the beans are cooking and let it boil for approximately 30 minutes.

After that, it's ready to serve and you can eat your Brazilian feijoada any way you like. We recommend it with the delicious side dishes of sautéed kale, cassava flour and any drink you like to accompany it.

It's delicious and is there anything more Brazilian than feijoada and an orange after lunch? There isn't, is there? Prepare a delicious feijoada for your Sunday lunch today.