Recipes
Minas Gerais-Style Tropeiro Beans
Make delicious Minas Gerais-style tropeiro beans for lunch or dinner! Check out PorkWorld's recipe!
Prep: 15 minCook: 10 minYield: Serves 6
Ingredients
- •1 cup dried beans – 160 g
- •200 g bacon
- •100 g smoked Brazilian calabresa sausage
- •1/4 onion, chopped – 85 g
- •1 egg
- •1 garlic clove
- •2 to 3 collard green leaves, very thinly sliced
- •50 g cassava flour
- •Salt to taste
Instructions
- 1
Place the beans in a pressure cooker with 3 cups of water and half a tablespoon of salt.
- 2
Once the pressure cooker starts hissing, cook for 8 minutes.
- 3
Turn off the heat and release the pressure very slowly.
- 4
Check that the beans are al dente. If they are not quite done, cook under pressure for another two minutes.
- 5
Reserve 1/4 cup of the bean cooking liquid to use in the dish.
- 6
Fry the bacon and sausage in a pan.
- 7
Drain off the excess fat, add the garlic and onion, and sauté.
- 8
Add the egg and stir until cooked.
- 9
Add the beans and collard greens.
- 10
Mix well and cook for about 3 minutes.
- 11
Finally, add the cassava flour, mixing well. It's ready to serve!