Brazil
Photo: Adrião, CC BY 3.0, croppedFeijoada
/fejʒuˈadɐ/fay-zhoo-AH-dah
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- When
- Lunch & dinnerFestive
- Taste
- SavoryRich
- Made with
- Beans & tofuPork
History
Feijoada is a slow-cooked stew of black beans with salted, smoked and fresh pork and beef, including sausages, ribs and sometimes ears and tails. Portugal has bean stews too, but the Brazilian feijoada completa, with black beans and served with rice, sautéed collard greens, toasted cassava flour (farofa) and orange slices, took shape in Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century. A popular story says enslaved Africans invented it from scraps their owners threw away, but historians doubt this; it appears in restaurant advertisements in the 1800s. It is eaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at long lunches with caipirinhas.
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