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The best of Portuguese gastronomy in an easy and attractive way.

 

With starters, soups, fish, meat and desserts, and ingredients that are easy to find all over the world, this is a beautiful book to remember or offer a little of the Portuguese gastronomic experience.

 

All recipes have a small background text and a wine pairing suggested by Rodolfo Tristão (president of Associação dos Escanções de Portugal), Carlos Jorge (sales manager da Delidelux) and Sérgio Antunes (Melhor_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Sommelier Português, 2010).

 

Available in Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian and simplified Chinese

 

Format: 185 x 105 | 48 pages

Ringwire finish, shrink-wrapped

HOW TO ASSEMBLE YOUR RECIPE BOOK

 

Open the back cover flap.

Hold the cover and turn it 360º clockwise.

Hold the cover and fit the lower part of it into the flap hook.

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SUMMARY

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APPETIZER

 

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cod pastries

Octopus salad

Clams à Bulhão Pato

Green soup

FISH

 

canned Portuguese style

Stew

Seafood rice

shrimp soup

Bacalhau à Brás

Polvo à Lagareiro 

MEAT

 

Alentejo style pork

Feijoada To Portuguese

Braised Veal with Potatoes

duck rice

Chicken in Púcara

DESSERTS

 

Sweet rice

Ovar sponge cake

bacon from heaven

custard tarts

REVENUES

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BACALHAU à BRÁS

for 4 people

 

INGREDIENTS

500 g dried cod, soaked

750g potatoes, unpeeled 

1 medium onion, very finely chopped 

3 eggs

3 c. fresh parsley soup, 

very pricked

Salt, pepper and nutmeg 

Oil for frying 

 

1  Cook the codfish and reserve the water. Clean the skins and pimples, and shred with the help of a cloth. Cook the unpeeled potatoes in the cod water and, when they cool down, peel them and puree them.

 

2 In a bowl combine the puree, cod, onion and parsley. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add the eggs, one by one, mixing the dough well until it has the ideal consistency for molding. 

 

3  Mold the pastries with the help of two soup spoons  and fry in abundant hot oil.

ALENTEJANA PORK MEAT

for 4 people

 

INGREDIENTS

Assorted seafood (1 lobster, 500 g shrimp, 1 kg clams and 2 patas de crab)_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf55

350 g long rice 

1 onion, chopped 

2 garlic cloves, minced 

750 ml water 

250 ml white wine 

4 c. extra virgin olive oil soup

2 c. tomato pulp soup 

1 bunch coriander or parsley, chopped

salt and spicy

 

1  Season the meat with garlic, bay leaf, pepper, salt  and red pepper sauce, mixing well. Drizzle with white wine, cover and leave to marinate for a few hours.

 

2  Heat the oil and lard in a deep frying pan with a lid, adding the meat. Let it brown, stirring occasionally.

 

3 When they are tender, add the clams, tape and wait for them to open.

 

4  Fry the potatoes and add them to the meat. 

 

5 Serve sprinkled with coriander.

BLOOD OF HEAVEN

for 1 bacon of heaven

 

INGREDIENTS

300 g almonds, peeled and ground 

500 g sugar 

18 gems  

2 eggs 

200 ml water 

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Sugar for sprinkling 

Butter for greasing and flour for dusting the mold 

 

1 Preheat the oven to 150ºC. Grease and flour a 25 cm springform pan with a removable base.

 

2 Boil the sugar in water until it forms a pearl point. Turn off the heat and add almonds and salt.

 

3  After cooling, mix the yolks and eggs passed through a sieve. 

 

4 Bring the candy to the heat, stirring constantly until you get a thick cream. Transfer to shape and bake for 35 min.

 

5 Serve at room temperature sprinkled with sugar.

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