The copyright of this recipe is owned by Jamie Oliver. All rights of the owner are reserved and asserted including the right to be attributed as the author. Unauthorized copying, adapting, display or re-publication of this recipe (or any part of this recipe) in any material form is strictly prohibited. My mate Santos is the head potwasher at my restaurant, Fifteen. He's a Brazilian who's a great cook and whose mother makes the best Feijoada in Brazil! It's a traditional Brazilian stew made with pork and black beans. The slaves in colonial Brazil created the Feijoada when they started cooking the pork meats that farmland owners discarded, such as ear, tails and feet, in a big pot with the black beans.

Ingredients

• 1 pound black beans, dried - not from a tin
• 1 pound salted pork ribs
• 1 pound salted bacon
• 8 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 onions, peeled and finely chopped
• 6 cloves garlic, peeled, finely chopped
• 2 large smoked sausages, cut into big chunks
• 1 pound smoked pork ribs, cut into pieces
• 1 pound smoked bacon, cut into chunks
• 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
• 5 bay leaves
• Cooked rice, orange slices, spring greens, as accompaniment

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