
Cassavabased dishes
Cassava is heavily featured in the Brazilian the guise of farofa (lightly roasted flour), cassava is combined with rice and beans to make the basic meal of many Brazilians. Farofa is also a frequent side dish to many Brazilian foods including the national dish feijoada, a saltedpork and blackbeans dish vaca atolada ("mudstranded cow") is a meat and cassava .