add plenty of spices, cook slowly for hours and hours, serve over rice - typically, the meal is served with a bean soup called caldinho de feijão and farofa de ovo, the cassava flour, so common in brazil, is sautéed in butter into an egg and cheese scramble.

the resulting mixture is eaten by hand, or dipped into the caldinho and the feijoada.   like all comfort food, feijoada is meant to be served communally, and the proper eating of it can take several hours.