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

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

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

Anyway, whether yous believe inward this sort of culinary clairvoyance or not, this Brazilian feijoada is 1 of the world’s dandy stews. The traditional expert luck edible bean is the black-eyed pea, but hither we’re celebrating the delicious, together with real nutritious, dark bean.

I tried to hold upwardly clear inward the video that this is only my version, together with non or thus endeavour at truthful feijoada authenticity, whatever that is. As long every bit yous bring dark beans, together with LOTS of smoked, salted, dried, and/or cured meats, yous are good on your means to or thus sort of feijoada-like awesomeness.

In illustration you’re wondering, all I did for the greens was boil or thus kale inward salted H2O until tender, together with and then sauté briefly inward olive stone oil together with garlic. It pairs perfectly amongst the white rice together with rich stew, together with spell I can’t guarantee a year’s worth of wealth together with expert luck, I tin hope yous a delicious bowl of food. Happy New Year's Day to all of you, together with every bit always, enjoy!

Ingredients for vi portions:
1 pounds dry out dark beans, soaked overnight
2 quarts water, addition to a greater extent than every bit needed (add to a greater extent than whenever stew looks besides 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 together with 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 amongst bay leaf, beef jerky, together with whatever bones
- Simmer for 1 1/2 to two hours, or until beans are cooked, but real firm
- Add onion mixture together with meats, together with simmer for or thus other hour, or until beans are real soft
- Add a splash of H2O at whatever betoken during the cooking if stew looks besides dry
- Test together with add together tabular array salt close the end, depending on saltiness of meat

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