Fair Food · Beans & Cassava Flour
Feijão Tropeiro
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It's named after the 'tropeiros,' 18th- and 19th-century mule drivers who needed food that wouldn't spoil on weeks-long cattle-trading routes through the mountains.
Beans fried with toasted cassava flour, bacon, egg, and collard greens, scooped into cups or folded into bread at Minas street fairs and market stalls. It's dry and portable by design, not saucy like everyday feijão.
Why it's made this way: The recipe grew directly out of Minas Gerais' colonial mule-trading routes, when drovers needed shelf-stable trail food that could survive days without refrigeration.
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