Feijão Tropeiro

The delicious dish from Minas Gerais - Brazil 🇧🇷

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The comfort food of many Brazilians, "feijão tropeiro" - tropeiro beans - have become one of the main typical Brazilian dishes, especially in the state of Minas Gerais, my state☺️.
The name comes from the tropeiros – merchants who sold horses, mules, and food between the south and southeast regions of Brazil. They fed by mixing beans, cassava flour, sausage, eggs, cracklings, onions and seasoning.
I remember eating it at typical parties, Sunday lunches, restaurants and occasionally it was served at my school in Governador Valadares - Minas Gerais, a state that despite not having a beach (an inside joke among Brazilians) enchants with the waterfalls, rivers, history, delicious cuisine and for the kind and welcoming people ❤️. Nothing more "mineiro" than a tropeiro bean for family lunch on Sunday. The flavor of the beans mixed with flour, cabbage and eventually fried bananas makes my mouth water just thinking about it! 🤤

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How to make a "Feijão Tropeiro"?
Dona Tereza's Tropeiro Beans Recipe
  • Yield: 20 servings.
  • Difficulty Level: Easy.
  • Preparation Time: 45 min.
  • Storage: in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
    Ingredients:
  • 3 cups cooked red beans (just the beans, no broth)
  • 500g of sausage
  • 200g bacon in small cubes
  • 3 large plantains in small cubes
  • 1 onion chopped into small cubes
  • 1 bunch of kale, chopped into thin strips (chiffonade)
  • 1/2 cup cassava flour
  • Salt and black pepper as you want.
    Preparation method
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) and place the sausage on a bakink tray to bake.
  2. Meanwhile, chop all your ingredients.
  3. Season the crackling with salt and black pepper.
  4. In a frying pan, fry the bacon in its own fat: this means placing the bacon in the frying pan at a low temperature and waiting for it to release the fat little by little. Then, increase heat to medium and fry in that fat intil golden. Remove the bacon from the pan (leaving the fat in the pan) and place on another plate lined with paper towel.
  5. In the same frying pan in which you fried the bacon (and with the fat it released into the pan), add the chopped banana. Sauté it in this bacon fat until it is golden. Stir from time to time so that all sides of the banana cubes turno golden. Reserve the banana on a plate lined with paper towel and season with salt and black pepper.
  6. When the sausage is ready, remove it from the oven and cut into medium pieces. reverve.
  7. In a very large pan, heat the oil, add the onion and sauté until it is translucent.
  8. Add the chopped cabbage and a little salt and sauté until the cabbage has wilted.
  9. Add the beans (without the broth) to the pan and season with salt and black pepper.
  10. Add the bacon and browned bananas and the roasted sausage. Mix well.
  11. Add the cassava flour and season with salt and black pepper. Cook all of this, stirring constantly for about 3 minutes or until the flour is golden brown.
Suggestion: Júlia and Dona Tereza's family likes to serve this recipe with white rice and vinaigrette!
This recipe is based on the recipe from Marina Morais. Bom apetite! 😋🇧🇷
Original recipe, Marina Morais website
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