Feijoada ( port. Feijoada , from feijão - beans ) - a traditional dish for Portuguese-speaking countries made from beans, meat products and porcelain ( cassava flour).
According to one version, a feijoad three hundred years ago was invented by slaves brought to Brazil from Africa . They mixed pieces of pork left over from the master's dinner and black beans - the Brazilian food traditional for those times for slaves and animals. Over time, the Portuguese added sausages and sausage to this dish, and the Indians added porcelain (a mixture of cassava flour and butter). In favor of this version, the “feijao” is a harmless nickname of dark-skinned people on slang, since beans in Brazil are black. But the “slave” legend of the origin of the feijoada was dispelled by a number of scientific studies [1] .
According to another version, the history of feijoades is rooted in European cuisine. As possible ancestors of the feijoids, French casule, Portuguese recipes of extremadura or Spanish cozido madrileno are called.
The most likely variant of the origin of feijoades is the idea that this dish comes from Portugal and has roots in the Roman Empire.
Today feijoads are made from beans, various types of meat, spices, cassava flour, served in a clay pot with cabbage, slices of orange, pepper sauce and, if desired, rice. Feijoads are prepared differently in each region, with different additives.
In the literature
“The driver Tian, after Cachasa and Mokeki, invited the whole company to his house on the feijoada on Sunday and promised to sing his latest compositions with a guitar. "His house is the house of the poor, simple, without pretensions, but beans and friendly relations are in abundance."
- Jorge Amadou " Teresa Batista, tired of fighting "
“Everything was new to the chairman of the Society of Medical Writers, everything worried him, because until now his world had been limited to a clinic, students, an X-ray room on Chile Street, an apartment on Graca Street, and literary and scientific meetings. Unless on Sundays the beach and feijoads were added. ”
- Jorge Amadou “ The Shop of Miracles ”
"First Mass in the Church of St. Bonfima, then breakfast, consisting of delicious feijoades, and in the evening a ball that ended only in the morning. ”
- Jorge Amadou “ Shepherds of the Night ”
Notes
- ↑ DITADI, Carlos Augusto Silva - Cozinha Brasileira: Feijoada Completa- Revista Gula, n. 67, Editora Trad, São Paulo. 1998.
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has Feijoad-related media files