World Cuisines

Portugal

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Bacalhau à Brás

Lisbon's beloved scramble: salt cod, matchstick potatoes and onion bound with egg into a golden, just-set tangle, crowned with olives and parsley. Ingredients: bacalhau (salt cod), onions, garlic, potatoes, eggs, olive o…

Pastéis de Nata

Lisbon's warm custard miracle: a shattering caramelised puff-pastry shell holding barely-set, cinnamon-kissed egg custard. Ingredients: puff pastry, egg yolks, sugar, milk or cream, flour or cornstarch, lemon peel, cinna…

Francesinha

Porto's gloriously excessive sandwich: steak, ham, sausage and cheese stacked in bread, drowned in a hot beer-tomato sauce, usually under a fried egg with fries. Ingredients: thick bread, wet-cured ham, linguiça sausage,…

Caldo Verde

Portugal's green soul-soup: potatoes puréed silky, with ribbons of collard greens (couve galega) and a coin of chouriço in every bowl. Ingredients: potatoes, onion, garlic, collard greens or kale, chouriço sausage, olive…

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