Feijão tropeiro
Cooked beans sautéed with bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, collard greens and cassava flour: the muleteers' dish from Minas.
- Time
- 45 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Per serving
- R$6.10
- Servings
- 4 servings
Ingredients
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Feijão tropeiro comes from the muleteers who crossed Minas Gerais carrying beans, flour, meat and whatever else could travel. At home it is the tastiest way to give yesterday's beans a second life, in one large skillet and in under an hour.
Method
- In a large skillet, fry the bacon over medium heat until it renders its fat and turns crisp.
- Remove half with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- In the fat left behind, brown the sausage for about 5 minutes.
- Add the onion and garlic and cook for 3 minutes.
Add the drained beans and let them heat through for 5 minutes, mashing a few beans with the spoon to bind everything.
- Push the beans to one side, crack the eggs into the free space and stir until they set in firm pieces.
- Mix everything together.
- Add the greens and cook for 2 minutes, until wilted.
- Scatter in the flour little by little, stirring, until the mixture is loose and crumbly.
- Turn off the heat, add the reserved bacon, the scallions and the black pepper.
- Taste, and only then adjust the salt.
- Serve with white rice.
Tips
Use well-drained beans, because the broth makes the mixture pasty. Add the flour gradually: stop when the beans are loose, not too dry. It usually goes to the table with crispy pork rinds and fried banana.
Brazil · Minas Gerais · per serving
Nutrients per serving
Calories
418 kcal
Protein
18 g
17% of kcal
Carbohydrate
47 g
44% of kcal
Fat
18 g
39% of kcal · fiber 14 g
Where the calories come from
- protein17%
- carbohydrate44%
- fat39%
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By food
| Food | Qty. | kcal | Prot. | Share of calories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cooked pinto beans | 100 g | 76 | 4.8 g | 18% |
| bacon | 38 g | 148 | 5.1 g | 35% |
| eggs | 38 g | 54 | 4.9 g | 13% |
| onion | 28 g | 11 | 0.5 g | 3% |
| garlic cloves | 2.3 g | 3 | 0.2 g | 1% |
| collard greens | 63 g | 17 | 1.8 g | 4% |
| cassava flour (farinha de mandioca) | 30 g | 108 | 0.5 g | 26% |
| scallions | 13 g | 3 | 0.3 g | 1% |
Calculated with 8 of 9 ingredients. No data for: calabresa sausage.
Source: TACO (Unicamp) and USDA FoodData Central. Approximate values. Not medical or nutritional advice.
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