Tutu Mineiro Recipe Calculator

Tutu de Feijão (Mineiro Bean Purée): Ingredient Calculator

Tutu de feijão is a creamy bean dish from Minas Gerais, Brazil. You start with cooked beans, usually feijão carioca, then stir in cassava flour (farinha de mandioca) until the texture smooths out into something close to porridge. This calculator takes the base recipe and scales it per guest, using beans = 200 g × people and flour = 80 g × people. Garlic, onion, bacon and the seasonings all climb at that same rate.

The dish grew out of Portuguese colonial cooking and was later reworked by enslaved cooks and farm hands in the Minas backcountry, where cassava flour was always around and beans turned up at every meal. There are two main regional styles. The tutu mineiro runs thicker, almost pasty; the tutu paulista stays looser and sometimes swaps in corn flour. On the plate it usually shows up next to toasted couve (collard greens), torresmo (pork crackling), bisteca (pork chop) and a fried egg.

Applications

Reach for it when you're planning a Sunday family lunch, a country-style buffet, a Festa Junina, or one of those filling mineiro breakfasts served in the pousadas of Ouro Preto, Tiradentes and São João del-Rei. Kitchens that cook comida mineira lean on portion math like this when they need to figure out how much beans, flour and pork garnish to buy for their fixed-price self-service lunches.

FAQ

Can I use canned beans instead of cooking from scratch? Yes. Swap each 200 g of dry beans for around 500 g of cooked, drained beans, since dry beans roughly double in weight once cooked. Hold back a little on the liquid so the tutu doesn't come out runny.

What is the difference between tutu and virado à paulista? With tutu you blend the beans into a smooth purée first, then thicken that with cassava flour. Virado keeps the beans whole and visible, and the flour goes in right at the end with no blending.

Is tutu gluten-free? It is. Cassava flour has no gluten, so a traditional tutu stays gluten-free as long as you leave out any wheat-based sausage or stock.