Recipes: Brazillian Feijoada

Brazillian Feijoada

 

Faijoada is a Brazilian dish that is traditionally served over rice. It is a dish for occasions, but with a slow cooker is easy to make every day.

Ingredients
2 cups of dried black beans.
4 slices of bacon, preferably smoked.
1 lb of boneless pork shoulder cut into small cubes.
3/4 tsp of salt.
1/2 tsp of ground black pepper.
3 pieces of beef ribs with the bone.
3 cups of chopped onion.
1 1/4 cups of chicken broth, preferably fat free.
4 cloves of garlic.
9 oz of smoked ham hock.
1 tbsp of white vinegar.
8 pieces of orange wedges.

Directions
1. Boil the beans for 2 min in a saucepan.
2. Once the beans are cooked, remove them from the stove and let stand for an hour before draining away the water.
3. Crisp the bacon in a large skillet over a medium flame.
4. Once it is crisp, remove the bacon and crumble it into small pieces.
5. Sprinkle roughly 1/8 of the salt and half the ground pepper on the pork shoulder and transfer it to the skillet.
6. Increase the heat to high and sauté them for 8 min till it is browned evenly on all sides.
7. Remove the pork and transfer it to a slow cooker.
8. Sprinkle the beef ribs with 1/8 tsp of salt and all the remaining pepper and cook them in the skillet for 3 min on each side till they are browned nicely.
9. Add the beef ribs to the slow cooker.
10. Add the beans, 1/2 tsp of salt, onions, chicken broth, garlic and ham hock and stir well.
11. Cook over on low for 8 hrs.
12. Before serving, remove the ribs from the slow cooker and shred the meat after removing the bone first.
13. Add the shredded beef back to the slow cooker and pour the vinegar in.
14. Top off with the crumbled bacon and serve with the orange wedges.