Brazilian

Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour)

Name: Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 1.5 cups cassava flour; 3 tbsp butter; 1/2 onion; 3 strips bacon; 1/2 tsp salt

Rafael @rafael_sp09

Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cups cassava flour
3 tbsp butter
1/2 onion
3 strips bacon
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Dice the bacon and cook it in a dry skillet over medium heat until crisp, then remove and set aside, leaving the fat in the pan.
Add the butter and diced onion to the pan and saute 3 minutes until soft.
Sprinkle in the cassava flour in a steady stream, stirring constantly so it toasts evenly without clumping.
Toast 5 minutes, stirring, until golden and fragrant.
Stir the bacon back in, season with salt, and serve warm scattered over rice and beans.

Watch how to cook Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour)

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 Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)
  
  55 min
The protein alongside
- Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans)
  
  50 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, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Arroz Branco (Brazilian White Rice)
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: 350 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 54 g
Fat: 14 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

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

When to cook it

Farofa (Toasted Cassava Flour) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.