‘Bife com Ovo a Cavalo’ is one of the most popular dishes in Portuguese cuisine. It is a delicious and simple dish, a deep fried steak with a sunny side egg on top and french fries on the side. It is best served with either some rice and vegetables or a small salad on the side as an accompaniment.
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Chocolate Chestnut Cake, or ‘Bolo de Chocolate com Castanhas’, is a unique treat in Portuguese dessert making. This is a richly flavorful and decadent cake that has the right amount of sweetness and chocolate, with a wonderful crunchy texture from the chestnuts. This is a delightful dessert that is simple but refined in taste.
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‘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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