Brazilian
Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans)
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Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the beans and pressure-cook with the bay leaf and 6 cups of water for 20 minutes until tender.
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Heat the oil in a skillet and saute the minced garlic and diced onion until golden.
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Stir the sauteed garlic and onion into the cooked beans along with a ladle of the bean broth.
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Simmer uncovered 10 minutes, mashing a few beans against the pot to thicken the broth.
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Season with salt, discard the bay leaf, and serve hot alongside rice, the daily bean pot.
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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 Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| 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
- 400 kcal
- Protein
- 22 g
- Carbs
- 63 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 15 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 860 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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