Brazilian

Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava)

Name: Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava)
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 2.5 lb pork ribs; 2 lb cassava root; 1 onion; 4 garlic cloves; 1 bay leaf; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Rafael @rafael_sp09

Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

95 min Involved Dairy free Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 lb pork ribs
2 lb cassava root
1 onion
4 garlic cloves
1 bay leaf
2 tbsp cooking oil
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Season the ribs with salt, pepper, and half the minced garlic.
Heat the oil in a heavy pot and brown the ribs on all sides, about 10 minutes.
Add the diced onion, remaining garlic, and bay leaf and cook 5 minutes.
Pour in 3 cups of water, cover, and simmer 1 hour until the ribs are nearly tender.
Add the peeled, chunked cassava and simmer 25 minutes more until the cassava is tender.
Discard the bay leaf and serve hot, a special weekend Sunday dinner.

Watch how to cook Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans)
  
  50 min
What it is eaten with
- Arroz Branco (Brazilian White Rice)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Maionese de Batata (Brazilian Potato Salad)
  
  35 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 720 kcal
Protein: 34 g
Carbs: 71 g
Fat: 33 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 1000 mg
Saturated fat: 10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Costelinha com Mandioca (Pork Ribs with Cassava) takes about 95 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.