Pork and black bean stew (feijoada)

Ingredients

• 600 g black beans
• 1 pig’s ear
• 300 g dried beef (jerky)
• 2 litres water
• 1 large brown onion, diced
• 8 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 smoked pig’s feet
• 2 smoked pig’s tail
• 200 g smoked bacon, roughly chopped
• 500 g smoked pork rib, chopped
• 300 g pork loin, chopped
• 300 g smoked sausage, such as chorizo, thickly sliced
• 4 bay leaves
• ½ bunch of parsley, chopped
• ½ bunch of chives, chopped
• orange slices, stir-fried couve or Chinese broccoli, rice, toasted cassava flour, to serve (optional)

Instructions

Combine beans, pig’s ear and dried beef in a pressure cooker. Add the water. Cook for 40 minutes or until beans are tender but firm to the bite. Set aside.

Heat a large frying pan over high heat. Cook onion and garlic for 4 minutes or until browned. Add the pig’s feet, pig’s tail, bacon, pork rib and sausage. Cook for 5 minutes or until meat is browned. Add meat and bean mixtures, and bay leaves, to the frying pan. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 20 minutes.

Scatter over parsley and chives. Serve with orange, couve or Chinese broccoli, rice and toasted cassava flour.

Note

• Smoked pig’s ear, feet and tail are truly authentic, but you can use unsmoked – or even smoked hock – instead.