Quick Brazilian Black Bean Stew with Farofa

Ingredients

• Smoked pork sausage (e.g. linguiça), sliced200 g
• Black beans, with a little liquid400 g
• Onion, diced1 whole
• Garlic cloves, minced3 whole
• Bay leaf1 whole
• Long-grain rice140 g
• Kale or spring greens, shredded120 g
• Cassava (manioc) flour50 g
• Olive oil2 tbsp
• Orange, cut into wedges1 whole

Steps

1. 1Start the rice cooking in a saucepan and leave to cook. Brown the sausage in a separate pot, then add the onion and two-thirds of the garlic to the pot and soften for 5 minutes.
2. 2Add the beans, bay leaf, and 150 ml water to the sausage pot and simmer for 15 minutes, mashing a few beans to thicken.
3. 3Toast the cassava flour in 1 tbsp oil with a pinch of salt in a frying pan until golden to make farofa, then transfer to a serving bowl.
4. 4Quickly sauté the greens with the remaining garlic and oil in the same frying pan.
5. 5Serve the beans from the pot over rice from the saucepan on plates with greens, a sprinkle of farofa, and fresh orange wedges.