Brazilian Cooking

Baião de Dois (Rice and Beans)

-3 cups rice
-2 cloves garlic minced
-1/2 yellow onion

-1lb dried pinto beans
-3 cloves garlic minced
-1/2 yellow onion
-6 bay leaves
-1lb pork sausage(you can also use chicken, beef jerky, flied fish)
-1bunch parsley chopped
-1 lb queso fresco(Mexican cheese-you can get this at AB Mart in Boulder) cubed

Direction
1. Rinse the rice and set aside.
2. In a frying pan, put a little bit of oil and add garlic. Add onion and cook until it's translucent.
3. Add rice to the pan and water(double the amount of rice). Put salt to taste. Bring it to high heat until the water in the pan get dissolved.
4. In another pan, cut sausages in pieces and cook them and set aside.
5. In a big pot, cook garlic and onion until translucent.
6. Add *cooked beans(take out the bay leaves), the rice, sausages, parsley, queso fresco.

*cooked beans
There are a few different options:pressure cooker, normal pot, slow cooker.
This time, the chef used a pressure cooker since it's the fastest way to cook the dried beans.
You can always find how to cook in each method online. Just don't forget to cook the beans with bay leaves!!

Doce de leite
The chef found a pre-made can here but in Brazil, people make this out of sweeten condenced milk. And this is how you make your own if you can't find "doce de leite" in a can.
In Brazil, people dip apples etc in this and have it as a dessert! yum!!

Ingredients
-pressure cooker
-water
-1 can sweeten condenced milk(not the easy open lid one!)

Direction
1. In a pressure cooker, place the can and fill up with water until it reaches 1/2 inch above the top of the can.
2. Put the lid on and turn on the heat.
3. Once the pressure is on, keep it that way for 30mins.
4. Turn off the heat and wait until the pressure is off.
5. Cool the can until it's cool enough that you can handle it.
6. Open the can and finish!