If you travel to portugal, you have to know that here are many popular Portuguese dishes! I choose 10 tradicional and delicious dishes!
1. Posta Mirandesa
This consists of a thick tenderloin beefsteak cooked over a strong fire. SECRET: The meat is sourced from free-range Mirandesa cows, a breed originally from the Trás-os Montes region and found only in Portugal.
Eat with boiled potatoes and peeled greens (or rice). The potatoes are watered with a little of the sauce used in the meat.
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2. Cozido à Portuguesa
includes beef, pork, chicken and a variety of pork derivatives such as blood sausages and smoked pork parts. There are also some vegetables thrown in the mix, but one must admit this is a dish for meat lovers.
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3. Feijoada à transmontana
It is prepared with red beans or large white beans. Pork ear, muzzle and smoked pork spark. Various types of sausages that, after being cooked, are sauteed. Tomatoes, cabbage, carrots and other condiments. It is usually accompanied by white rice or very dry rice.
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4. Bacalhau à Brás
The shredded cod is sauteed in a pan along with onion and fried potatoes.
This dish is finished up with beaten eggs that cook as they join the pan, and topped with parsley and black olives.
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5.Francesinha
Francesinha is one of the best known typical dishes of the city of Porto (Portugal). It is made with two thick slices of shaped bread, among which is added a beef steak, sausage, mortadella, fresh sausage and cheese.
Afterwards cover with multiple slices of cheese on all sides and goes to the oven until the cheese begins to melt.
Finally put down the one that is the most important ingredient of Francesinha: the hot sauce, slightly thick and spicy.
Starfish and potato chips are optional.
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6. Arroz de pato
Duck rice is cooked until the meat is tender, simmered in red whine, and oven toasted along with the rice until the top is crispy. The rice absorbs the juices of the duck. Finally at the top are added the sliced smoked sausages.
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7. Polvo à Lagareiro
A whole octopus is first boiled and then roasted in the oven with plenty of garlic and olive oil. Add potato, remove from the oven, give a small punch and put it back!
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8. Alheira de Mirandela
The alheira, a type of fowl sausage, is one of the cheapest and most common Portuguese dishes with a fascinating history. Nowadays, the dish is available in any corner eatery.
Buy the alheira and it's just grilling without adding seasoning. Eat with greens and potatoes.
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9.Cataplana de Marisco
Cataplana de Marisco, um prato de peixe ou marisco. É considerado um prato clássico do Algarve. Enquanto os ingredientes variam de região para região, o prato sempre inclui peixe branco, frutos do mar, pimentões vermelhos, cebolas e pimentões pequenos. Tudo isso é colocado na cataplana. Comê-lo com pão crocante, arroz ou batatas fritas (batatas fritas).
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10. Caldo verde
Caldo verde originated from the Minho province of northern Portugal made with just five ingredients: mashed potato, onion, kale (a type of cabbage), olive oil and a sausage, like chouriço, salpicão or tora (blood sausage). It’s eaten with broa, a type of Portuguese corn bread.
Come to see and eat! 😁