Quick Feijoada Salad

Name: Quick Feijoada Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 14 min
Total time: 24 min
Ingredients: For the feijoada salad:; 3 strips uncooked smoked bacon (chopped); 5.3 ounces your favorite smoked sausage (either quartered or sliced into rounds, 150 g, if paio is not available); 1/2 small yellow onion (small diced); 2 cloves of garlic (minced); 2 cups chopped collard greens (fresh or frozen and thawed); 1/4 cup dry white wine; Salt and ground black pepper to taste; 1 can black beans (drained, 26.5oz or 715 g); 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lime juice; 6-8 grape tomatoes (halved); Slivers of Parmesan cheese; For the orange vinaigrette:; 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice; 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; Salt and pepper to taste

March 10, 2014 by Denise Browning 45 Comments / THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE SALES LINKS. PLEASE SEE MY _FULL DISCLOSURE POLICY_ FOR DETAILS

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Don’t you just love feijoada (Brazilian black bean stew)? I am totally crazy about it! If you’ve never had it, you’ve just got to try some as soon as possible. There’s no black beans on Earth better than this!! Inspired by one of the most traditional and famous Brazilian dishes, I developed this quick yet very delicious Feijoada Salad — which can either be served warm or chilled, as a side or main dish!!! In addition, it is naturally gluten-free and loaded with proteins. Ready?

I think I can guess what may have crossed your mind. It is a fair question! “How can a feijoada salad be quick if it takes at least 2 hours to prepare the base, which is feijoada?” The answer is quite simple: you don’t necessarily have to prepare a traditional feijoada to make this feijoada salad. Huh?

I know feijoada well enough to take some shortcuts.To prepare this feijoada salad, one will basically need canned black beans (which comes already cooked…you see?), smoked sausage and bacon (2 pork ingredients used in the traditional feijoada that can be cooked quickly), seasonings and condiments, collard greens (since traditional feijoada is accompanied by these), and orange vinaigrette (remember? Sliced oranges is one of feijoada’s traditional accompaniments). Just because our feijoada salad is a quick dish doesn’t mean at all that it has to be lacking in flavor. Try it and you will be hooked!

The rich flavors of traditional feijoada have also served as a source of inspiration for other dishes that I have developed in my professional life, apart from the blog, as a trained chef. As part of the original menu and recipes that I created for a restaurant which opened in Northeastern Brazil last summer, Bocadillos Tapas and Vinhos , I devised a recipe for ‘croquetes de feijoada’ (feijoada croquettes).

So you see, the unique combination of flavors that characterizes feijoada can be enjoyed in many different forms… See you in the kitchen soon.

P.S.: What’s your favorite bean salad?

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