Farofa is a typical Brazilian side dish, commonly accompanies meat or fish dishes.

The key ingredient in this recipe is cassava flour (also known as cassava, yucca, or tapioca) or “farinha de milho” corn flour.

This is the simpler version, which can be enriched with other ingredients such as vegetables or eggs.

There are several recipes to prepare a good Farofa and most Farofa have a very smoky and slightly salty taste, generally used to accentuate the taste of meat, especially the one roasted with the barbecue.

Farofa is served next to the main dish and can be enjoyed or eaten as an accompaniment.

• At Christmas we go out the farofa to fill the turkey inside before putting it in the oven.

NB: The simple farofa is enough to use only the following ingredients:

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Ingredients

• 3 glasses of cassava flour
• 1/2 packet of diced bacon or sausage cut into slices
• 1 egg
• a handful of black olives cut into rings
• 1 onion cut into slices
• extravirgin olive oil)
• Salt as needed

Method