New Brazilian Feijoada – Happy (And Hopefully Really Lucky) Novel Year!!

We’ve posted nigh this before, but there’s a great, southern tradition of eating beans too greens on New Year’s Day to ensure expert fortune inward the coming year. 

Apparently, past times eating “poor” the commencement twenty-four hours of the year, yous align certainly cosmic forces inward your favor, which results inward prosperity too expert luck the residue of the year. Sounds crazy, right? I know, you’re agency also sophisticated to believe inward such lame supernatural shenanigans. Hey hold back a minute…don’t yous spotter all those ghost hunter shows on cable TV? Busted! Hey, did yous listen that noise?

Anyway, whether yous believe inward this variety of culinary clairvoyance or not, this Brazilian feijoada is i of the world’s corking stews. The traditional expert luck edible bean is the black-eyed pea, but hither we’re celebrating the delicious, too really nutritious, dark bean.

I tried to last clear inward the video that this is merely my version, too non to a greater extent than or less endeavor at truthful feijoada authenticity, whatever that is. As long every bit yous accept dark beans, too LOTS of smoked, salted, dried, and/or cured meats, yous are good on your agency to to a greater extent than or less variety of feijoada-like awesomeness.

In example you’re wondering, all I did for the greens was boil to a greater extent than or less kale inward salted H2O until tender, too and thence sauté briefly inward olive crude too garlic. It pairs perfectly alongside the white rice too rich stew, too spell I can’t guarantee a year’s worth of wealth too expert luck, I tin hope yous a delicious bowl of food. Happy New Year's Day to all of you, too every bit always, enjoy!

Ingredients for vi portions:
1 pounds dry out dark beans, soaked overnight
2 quarts water, summation to a greater extent than every bit needed (add to a greater extent than whenever stew looks also dry)
1 bay leaf
2 smoked pork chops
12 oz linguica
8 oz Italian sausage
4 oz smoked bacon
3 oz dried beef
1 onion
6 cloves garlic
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp coriander
salt too pepper to taste
For the crumbs:
1/2 loving cup breadcrumbs
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp grated orangish zest
2 tbsp chopped Italian parsley

Basic steps:
- Soak beans overnight, add together to pot alongside bay leaf, beef jerky, too whatever bones
- Simmer for 1 1/2 to ii hours, or until beans are cooked, but really firm
- Add onion mixture too meats, too simmer for to a greater extent than or less other hour, or until beans are really soft
- Add a splash of H2O at whatever indicate during the cooking if stew looks also dry
- Test too add together tabular array salt nigh the end, depending on saltiness of meat

View the consummate recipe

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