Brazilian Cooking Series: Part I

Brazilian Cooking Series: Part I Posted by Transparent Language on Sep 10, 2008 in Uncategorized

In this new series, we’re going to look at a Brazilian dish, its origins, and how to prepare it, so that you can get a taste of Brazil as you study Brazilian Portuguese.

Today, we’re going to look at the most famous Brazilian dish, feijoada.

This dish, a bean and meat stew, has its origins in slave era Brazil. During this time, the slaves were given the worst cuts of meat, so in order to make them taste better, they simmered the meat in beans and spices for hours. Ironically, the food of the slaves became popular with the wealthy landowners, and over time became the national dish.

Feijoada can have many different cuts of meat (some may have ten or more separate cuts!), but is often made with pork, beef, and sausages. Feijoada is eaten with rice, the Brazilian equivalent of collard greens, and farofa, cassava flour (pictured above, left). Sometimes, oranges are also eaten with feijoada. It is usually served at lunchtime and is a popular weekend dish, since it takes so long to make.

To learn how to make feijoada, check out:
Cooking.com Recipe
Globo’s 65 Different Feijoada Recipes
Food & Wine.com Recipe
About.com Recipe
Tudogostoso.com Recipe
Bomgarfo.com Recipe

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Comments:

dete:

Quando precisar de uma receita de feijoada é só entrar em meu blog, lá tem feijoada light e uma outra receita: feijoada completa, até com receita de caipirinha, abraços
loreale:

Thank you for always sharing great things!!
Bianca:

You know the history of feijoada? The most recurrent, although perhaps not the most true is that the slaves of the time invented this dish because they had no access to a wide variety of foods, and were only cheap food to be produced in large farms, and remains even then was very beans, cassava flour, rice and meat, pork and parts of the cow not so noble. I say that may not be true that version because of the time, unlike today, this type of meat was yes, considered noble!
A big kiss.

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