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Serves: 6
Total Calories: 334

1 pound black beans
1/2 pound bacon , cut up into inch-square pieces
1/2 pound smoked sausage , cut up
1 sliced onion
1 clove crushed garlic
salt and pepper
1/2 cup coarsely ground bread crumbs

Let black beans soak overnight in a large pan. Change the water. Cover the beans with water without salt and cook over low heat until tender.

In a frying pan cook bacon, sausage, onion, garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook until golden.

Take 1 cup beans with juice from the large pan, place in a mixing bowl and mash them with a wooden spoon. You may choose to use a blender. Add bread crumbs. In Brazil, ground mandioca is used instead of breadcrumbs. Add to frying pan mixture.

Add this mixture to the large pan of beans and serve hot over a bed of Brazilian Rice.

Serve this with Couve (you can substitute for broccoli leaves), Farofa (see Accompaniments chapter), fried pork chops and fried egg. This is a simpler version of the famous Brazilian Feijoada completa.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 6
Total Calories: 334
Calories from Fat: 191

More Recipes from the A Taste of Brazil Cookbook:
Brown Brazilian Beans (Feijão)
Miner's Beans (Virado de feijão)
Brazil's National Dish (Feijoada completa)