Recipe#5722

Title: Tutu a Mineira( Bean Puree)

From: Leon & Miriam Posvolsky 
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:02:12 -0300 

   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.