Bean purée

Name: Bean purée (Tutu à mineira)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 500 g/1¼ lb/4 cups Everyday Black Beans; sprig of parsley, to garnish; 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup water; 30 ml/2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley; 125 g/4½ oz/generous 1 cup untoasted cassava flour; salt; 3 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped; 15 ml/1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra, to garnish

Tutu à mineira

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Brazil

By Fernando Farah

Published 2011

About

Tutu is a traditional dish from the rural state of Minas Gérais, still cooked by local cowboys when out on a cattle drive. The dish is made with light brown beans, similar to kidney beans, but outside Minas most people use the stronger-flavoured black bean, add extra flavourings and purée the mixture rather than mash it.

Ingredients

500 g/1¼ lb/4 cups Everyday Black Beans
250

Americas
Brazil
Minas Gerais
Side dish
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

1 Put the cooked black beans and water in a blender and blend for 2-3 minutes or until the mixture is a smooth purée. Pour and scrape into a medium pan.

2 Bring the bean purée to the boil, then lower the heat and gradually add the cassava flour, sprinkling only a fine dusting of it over the beans at a time.