Fair Food · Beans & Cassava Flour
Feijão Tropeiro
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It's the signature dish at Belo Horizonte's Mineirão stadium, where plates of feijão tropeiro are a matchday ritual.
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 out of Minas Gerais' colonial mule-train routes, when tropeiros carrying goods between mining towns and the coast needed trail food that could survive days without refrigeration.
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