Feijoada is a hearty and complex Brazilian stew starring pork and black beans. It includes bacon, chorizo, shredded pork chops, jalapeño and serrano peppers, tomatoes and squash. It’s usually served with rice, stir-fried collard greens, a cassava flour dish called farofa and sliced oranges.
While feijoada is the traditional Saturday meal in Brazil, we could eat it every day.
Recipe: Feijoada (Cookthink)
Reference: Root Source: Black Beans (Cookthink)
Reference: How to cook pork (Andrew Schloss)
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i’m brazillian and i never ever saw a feijoada with tomatoes or squash! weeeeird!
Brazil is a very large place! As with all regional specialties, there will be variations in the basic recipe–I add squash because it tastes good, not necessarily because it’s authentic.
I’m also brazilian and I ALSO have never seen feijoada with tomatos and squash. The feijoada is not as dry as it looks like on the picture and the variations of it include only different cuts of pork and kinds of sausages. This can be a good recipe of beans with pork and vegetables, but it’s far from being feijoada.
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Oh dear, I agree with Ana Paula and Silvia. That is NOTHING like feijoada. It sounds more like a Mexican stew than anything slightly close to any Brazilian dish. Jalepenos? Squash? Sorry, Laurel… but no. Please remove this info from this site, because it is very, very misleading.
Another Brazilian here and I have to agree with Joice… the recipe might be good, but the information you’re spreading is seriously misleading.
Feijoada may even change a bit from region to region, but you’re listing ingredients that don’t even exist in Brazil, like jalapeños and serranos.