How many calories in feijoada
A plate of feijoada has about 650 kcal, with 40 g of protein.
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Feijoada is black beans slow cooked with salted and smoked pork and sausage. In Brazil it's a Saturday lunch, and in Rio a lot of restaurants serve it on Wednesdays too.
A plate of the stew is 650 kcal, with 40 g of protein, 45 g of carbs and 34 g of fat. With white rice it comes to 900.
It comes with rice, sautéed collard greens, farofa and slices of orange. The greens and orange add little, but farofa is toasted cassava flour, often with butter, so that one counts.
Tips
- 1Take more beans and fewer of the fatty cuts from the pot.
- 2Pile on the collard greens and the orange.
- 3Go easy on the farofa, a spoon is plenty.
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Questions
What meat is in feijoada?
A mix: sausage, smoked ribs, bacon and dried beef, and in the full version pork ears, tail and trotters.
How many calories in feijoada with rice?
About 900 kcal for a plate with white rice.
Is feijoada high in protein?
Yes, about 40 g a plate, from the beans and the meat.
What do you serve with feijoada?
White rice, collard greens fried with garlic, farofa and orange slices. A caipirinha often comes along too.
Is feijoada only Brazilian?
Portugal has feijoada too, often with red or white beans. The black bean one is the Brazilian version.
