‘Tarte de Maçã’, or Portuguese Apple Tart, is a signature of Portuguese dessert making. It combines fresh apples with a flaky crust and a slightly citrus lemon twist, to make a sweet and simple tart. This is a simple and quick dessert recipe for anytime that is perfect for serving with some ice cream and is always sure to please.
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‘Massada de Marisco’ is a popular Portuguese style seafood pasta dish. It is a delicious seafood medley combining shrimp, mussels, clams and lobster along with typical Portuguese flavors like piri-piri and white wine. This makes for a great seafood pasta dish with intense flavors that is sure to impress.
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‘Fios de Ovos’ are a signature dish in Portuguese dessert making. They are basically sweet egg yolks drawn into thin strands like pasta which are cooked in sugar syrup. They are an integral element of both Portuguese and Brazilian cuisine. Like many other egg-based Portuguese sweets,they are believed to have been created by Portuguese monks and nuns around the 15th century. They are very simple, easy to make and sure to impress.
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‘Bola de Berlim’, also known as a Berliner, is a Portuguese version of a doughnut. It is a very popular Portuguese summer pastry which historically originates in Northern German pastry making. ‘Bola de Berlim’ is typically bigger than their German counterpart and uses an egg yolk based filling instead. The filling in a Bola de Berlim in always visible as the doughnut is sliced into halves. They are made with sweet dough fried in oil with some powdered sugar icing on top.
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There are many ways to cook ‘Cachupa’, Cape Verde’s national dish. In a diverse archipelago such as Cape Verde, ‘Cachupa’ remains the distinct style of food for practical reasons. This version of making Cachupa is called ‘Cachupa Rica’. It uses all of the ingredients available on hand to make a richly flavorful meaty dish. Depending on the island there are various ways to cook this traditional food, with ‘Cachupa Rica’ and ‘Cachupa Pobre’ being the main two. Typically, the difference between Cachupa Rica (Rich) and Pobre (Poor), is that there are meats used in the making of Cachupa Rica.
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Cheese flan, or Pudim de Queijo, is a unique take on popular Portuguese flans. It uses the creamy texture and slight sourness of goat cheese to make a dessert flan most similar to cheesecake in terms of flavor. This is a great dessert for those who enjoy a nice combination of sweet and sour in a dessert. It is very simple and easy to make without much fuss and is sure to impress.
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