Feijoada is a bean stew with beef and pork found throughout the Portuguese-speaking world. Brazil's version combines black beans with a variety of pork and beef cuts and is widely regarded as the country's national dish, traditionally served on Saturdays with rice, collard greens, orange slices and toasted cassava flour. The dish descends from European bean-and-meat stews that spread with the Portuguese, but its most celebrated form took shape in colonial Brazil, where enslaved and free Afro-Brazilians combined Portuguese, African and Indigenous cooking traditions during the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century feijoada had moved from a working-class meal to a dish eaten across Brazilian society, and closely related versions using different bean colors and meats are also cooked in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and other former Portuguese territories.
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Origin Period, From (Year)Century-level approximation only: sources place the black-bean Brazilian form emerging in eighteenth-century colonial Brazil among enslaved Africans reworking Portuguese pork-and-bean stews, per historical consensus from the University of Sao Paulo (2015) cited in the article; the exact founding decade is not fixed, and the dish's own Portuguese antecedents run considerably earlier. Classification
Dietary SuitabilityContains Meat or Poultry 1 Origin RegionBrazil (with roots in Portuguese and pan-Lusophone bean-stew cooking) 1 FAQs
Which meats go into feijoada?
Traditionally smoked pork ribs and other meats, such as pancetta, pork belly, chorizo and blood sausage.
Feijoada is traditionally made with smoked pork ribs plus other meat, which gives the stew its rich flavour. One Good Food recipe for a Brazilian-style feijoada uses mixed meats such as chopped pancetta, pork belly pieces, chorizo and sliced blood sausage, together with smoked pork ribs. Cooks outside Brazil can buy feijoada meat packs from Brazilian grocers, or use whatever mix of meats is easy to find locally, and unsmoked pork ribs work too.
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Feijoada is a common name given to dishes from Portuguese-speaking countries such as Portugal, Brazil, Angola, East Timor, Mozambique, and Macau, where it is made from a mixture of meat and white, black, or red beans, usually accompanied by rice.
Wikipedia History section, sentence on colonial Brazil origin
Black beans and leftover pork were used by the enslaved Africans to create the inventive cuisine known as feijoada in colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century.
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Feijoada (European Portuguese: [fɐjˈʒwaðɐ], Brazilian Portuguese: [fejʒuˈadɐ]; from feijão, 'bean') is the name for varieties of bean stew with beef or pork prepared in the Portuguese-speaking world.
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