Authentic Bean Stew with Linguiça | Comfort Food Recipe
Warm your kitchen with this hearty Portuguese bean stew. Smoky linguiça and tender beans simmered in one pot for a rich, easy meal. Grab the recipe now!
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Ingredients
1 lb of pinto beans-presoaked, wash and pick out pebbles before soaking1/3 pound bacon (cut up)1 Large onion (chopped)1/2 green bell pepper (chopped)Water to cover approximately 4 cups15 Ounce can tomato sauce1/2 Teaspoon cinnamon1 and 1/2 Teaspoon cumin1/2 Teaspoon salt or to tastePepper to tasteUp to one pound of pan cooked linguica (chopped or sliced)2 Garlic cloves (minced)
Directions
- Soak the beans overnight. This step can be skipped but the amount of water added will increase significantly. If you use this latter method start with two inches of water over all prepared ingredients and add more as needed as the beans cook.
- Cook the bacon, not to crisp, in a dutch oven and drain off excess fat.
- Add chopped onion to the bacon and continue cooking.
- Add bell pepper and cook until pepper begins to soften.
- Add soaked beans and water. Turn burner to medium heat until the beans begin to boil. Turn the heat to low for simmering heat.
- Add tomato sauce and the spices. Hold salt and pepper for now. Cover and cook until beans are tender. Depending on the soaked beans or not this could take several hours. Remember to check from time to time to add water as needed.
- Slice or chop the linguica. Cook over medium heat until slightly brown. This process will remove some of the excess fat. Drain after cooking. Add linguica and continue cooking. After about 30 minutes check for need of salt and pepper. Add as needed.
- Cook until beans are tender.
Adapted from a Recipe by: Anita
Nutritional Facts (Per Serving)
Calories
580 kcal
Fat
25 g
Carbs
60 g
Protein
32 g
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Comments (24)
Annemarie W.
I love Portuguese food !
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2 Years ago, Saturday, May 11, 2024
Mark J. Lewis
I’m trying to recapture my dads recipe. At first I thought the green pepper was nuts, but the more I think about it, and I’m talking 40+ years ago, I think I recall something green in the beans. I may try it!
Thanks for helping to re-spark my interest.
Thanks for helping to re-spark my interest.
3 Years ago, Saturday, June 24, 2023
Sue
This is a little different from the Portuguese Bean Soup I grew up with. My family is from the Azores, so I suppose it's possible that that's the difference, or someone changed it overtime. People do make changes to recipes. We never used green peppers. We used pink beans, bacon or linguica, 3 onions, garlic, tomato sauce, brown sugar, cumin, and 1/8 tsp. each allspice, cinnamon and cloves. The spices were what made this dish special. It brings back good memories!
3 Years ago, Friday, March 31, 2023
Jenny Tomlinson
Chourico in SA is horribly expensive so I used a locally made Russian Sausage. All I can say is WOW it was Delicious.
4 Years ago, Saturday, August 13, 2022
Tuga Pops
It's a Portuguese sausage similar to chouriço Jenny.
4 Years ago, Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Maxine
Not too clear about when to add the liguica. When the beans are soft? Or after the tomato sauce?
4 Years ago, Friday, June 10, 2022
Tuga Pops
Yes Gina, here you go: https://www.portugueserecipes.ca/recipe/651/5/Azorean-Sweet-Bread-Recipe
4 Years ago, Saturday, February 5, 2022
Susan Neves
I think the recipe sounds good...the only ingredient I'm questioning is the cinnamon, although 1/2 tsp. is very small considering the amount of beans.
4 Years ago, Friday, January 14, 2022
Joan Elizabeth Fournier
My maiden name is Souza and have never used cinnamon making this soup. or cumin and will use a small amount of wet red crushed peppers. My heritage is the AZORES an island and Portuguese. Just to let you know many ways of making it. Enjoy
4 Years ago, Saturday, June 11, 2022
Tuga Pops
Susan, if you're not a fan please leave that out, the author simply recommends it but it's up to everyone's taste buds. to take away or add anything. :-)
4 Years ago, Friday, January 14, 2022
Sandra Souza
I agree with Justin. My mother and grandmother preferred pink beans when they made this. Otherwise this recipe is pretty close to theirs.
5 Years ago, Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Justin Borba
I prefer pink beans to pintos. That suggestion was in a comment for this same recipe from an earlier time -- Maybe a year or two back. It definitely makes a difference.
5 Years ago, Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Tuga Pops
Thanks Justin, we were using Facebook comments before, this comment system is new so all the old comments are gone.
5 Years ago, Thursday, August 26, 2021





