This side dish is made everywhere in Brazil.

There are many variations of this recipe.

It can be done with bacon, olives, bananas… let’s make our special Farofa with passion fruit?

Ingredients

9 oz yellow flaked corn meal

2/3 cup unsalted butter

1 passion fruit (seeds and pulp only)

1/2 cup passion fruit juice (juice from concentrate or fresh)

1 Tablespoon sugar

Directions

1. In a large skillet, melt half of the butter. Add the corn meal and cook until golden brown. Put it aside.
2. In the same pan add passion fruit pulp, seeds, juice and sugar and allow it to boil for 5 minutes stirring constantly. If  it dries too quickly add ¼ cup of water.
3. Add the rest of the butter and corn meal prepared before and cook again until all ingredients are well mixed and the farofa is hot and crunchy. Serve immediately.

* Farofa is a dish usually made with corn meal, cassava root flour or breadcrumbs with vegetables or meat.

** Serve as a side dish with fish, chicken or meat.

Servings: 8

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

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