Tutu a Mineira( Bean Puree)

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Tutu a Mineira ( Bean Puree)

Recipe By : Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Main Courses

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 lb black beans
1 onions -- chopped
1/4 lb bacon
2 cloves garlic
1 tbsp chopped parsley
1 tbsp chopped green onions
1 pork sausage
bay leaf
sausages (kielbasa ok)
3 onions -- sliced
3 hard boiled eggs
oil
water to cover beans by 6"
1/2 to 1 cup corn flour or yucca flour

1. Soak beans overnight or place them in a stockpot with cold water bring
to a boil. Cover, turn off heat and let stand 1 hour.
2. Add bacon, 1 sausage and bay leaf and bring to a boil. Turn down heat
and simmer covered until beans are cooked.
3. Heat a pan with oil and cook chopped onion and garlic until onion is
translucent.
4. Place beans, cooked onion mixture, salt, pepper and parsley in food
processor ( you may have to do this in parts) and run the machine until it
becomes a cream.
5. Return this cream to the pot and bring to a boil stirring.
6. Add the corn flour to the beans slowly stirring well ( as if you were
making polenta).
7. Keep stirring until thick like a puree.
8. Meanwhile bake kielbasa to taste.
9. Fry sliced onions in oil until soft
10 Serve with the kielbasa,fried onions decorated with quartered hard
boiled eggs.
Serve with kale, rice and very hot chili on the side.

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NOTES : You may serve the tutu with baked pork loin instead of the
kielbasa or in addition to it
In Sao Paulo this dish is called virado and is served topped with fried
eggs in place of the hard boiled eggs.