Banana farofa (toasted cassava flour with plantain)

Name: Banana farofa (toasted cassava flour with plantain)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Brazil
Ingredients: 4 tbsp butter; 2 plantains, ripe, diced; 1 onion, chopped; 250 g cassava flour, raw; 3 tbsp parsley, chopped; salt, to taste

Cassava flour toasted in butter with onion and caramelized chunks of plantain. Goes with feijoada and barbecue.

Time: 20 min
Difficulty: Easy
Per serving: R$1.90
Servings: 6 servings

Golden farofa with caramelized plantain cubes and parsley

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Ingredients

for 6 servings

4 tbspbutter
2plantainsripe, diced
REGIONAL SWAP
No plantains?
3 firm bananas; they brown faster and turn sweeter
Changes the flavor a little
1onionchopped
250 gcassava flourraw
3 tbspparsleychopped
saltto taste

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Banana in farofa is one of the most Brazilian combinations there is: sweet, salty and fat in a single dish. It goes with feijoada, fried fish, barbecue and roast chicken.

Method

1
- In a large pan, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat and brown the plantains for 5 minutes, turning carefully.
- Remove and set aside.
In the same pan, melt the rest of the butter and cook the onion for 3 minutes, until golden.
Add the cassava flour and salt and stir constantly for 5 minutes, until the flour is golden and loose.
Turn off the heat, return the plantains to the pan, stir in the parsley and serve.

Tips

Use ripe plantains, with very yellow skin and black spots, so they caramelize. The farofa stays crisp for a few hours; keep the plantain separate if making it ahead.

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Nutrients per serving

Calories

227 kcal

Protein

1 g

2% of kcal

Carbohydrate

38 g

67% of kcal

Fat

8 g

31% of kcal · fiber 3 g

Where the calories come from

protein2%
carbohydrate67%
fat31%

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By food

Nutrients of each food, per serving
Food	Qty.	kcal	Prot.	Share of calories
butter	9.5 g	69	0 g	30%
onion	18 g	7	0.3 g	3%
cassava flour	42 g	151	0.7 g	66%

Calculated with 3 of 5 ingredients. No data for: parsley, plantains.

Source: TACO (Unicamp). Approximate values. Not medical or nutritional advice.

Banana farofa (toasted cassava flour with plantain)

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