QOTW - What's for dinner at your house tonight? (With recipe)

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Feijoada and rice, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.

 

Feijoada (Tangy Black Beans) from Diet For A Small Planet

 

Oil for sautéing

1 large onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 green onions, chopped

1 red sweet pepper, chopped

1 tomato, chopped

1 teaspoon cilantro

1 cup black beans

3 cups vegetable stock

1 bay leaf

1 tablespoon red wine or 1 teaspoon red wine or other vinegar

¼ teaspoon pepper

1 orange, washed, cut in half, NOT peeled (or about a quarter cup of orange

juice)

½ teaspoon salt

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

1 small sweet potato, peeled and diced

 

Heat oil in large heavy pot and sauté onion, garlic, green onions, sweet red

pepper tomato and cilantro until onion is transparent.  Add beans, stock, bay

leaf, pepper, and red wine or vinegar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer

for 2 minutes.  Take off stove and let sit, covered, for 1 hour.

 

Add remaining ingredients and simmer with lid ajar, for 2 to 3 hours, or until

beans are tender.  Remove orange from beans and discard. Remove a couple ladles

of beans and mash them, and return to the pot to thicken the mixture.

 

Note: pressure cooker or crock pot works fine.  To substitute canned black

beans, use two cans black beans, drain one, add sautéed vegetables and one can

of vegetable stock.  Simmer all together with the sweet potato and carrot till

the sweet potato and carrot are cooked and tender.

 

Good stuff, different flavors than you usually expect from black beans.

 

Jeanne in GA