Portuguese Main Dish Recipes

"Giblets : The edible inner parts of poultry, including the gizzard, heart, liver and kidneys ....... This recipes was devised to use up all the giblets left over from home slaughtered chickens! You can use either giblets or just livers in this recipe. However, the cooking time for giblets is longer than that for livers. Giblets need 15 - 20 minutes,..."

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Ingredients: cloves, cumin, garlic...

"This is a very popular recipe in this area where the population is mostly of Portuguese decent. A gal I work with, who is from the Azores gave me this one."

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Ingredients: pepper, steaks, eggs...

"If you can get hold of piri piri seicana chillies replace the birds-eye chillies. We add 5-10 ml chillies but I suggest that you adjust to your taste."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, ground paprika...

"We used to eat this sausage on our holidays in Portugal. This recipe comes closest to how I remember it tasting. I do not have a smoker so the liquid smoke is a good solution. Freezes well. If I can get casings I make the sausage but as patties or burgers this is great too. No standing time included."

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Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, dried oregano...

"Posted on behalf of a request. Here in Toronto (which has a large Portuguese community), every Portuguese food store likely sells bifana; except for the bakeries, I've seen it frequently. It's very tasty -- I've never made it, but I've bought it on occasion and eaten it at my Portuguese girlfriend's home many times as well. Bifana is regarded more as..."

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Ingredients: dry white wine, garlic, lard...

"I love the blend of flavors in this dish. This is a hearty one dish meal. The secret spice is the Saffron. Saffron is expensive, but you must add it or the taste of authentic Paella is lost."

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Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, dried rosemary...

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Ingredients: pepper, corn kernels, cornmeal...

"An effortless preparation this dish will impress! Enjoy this savory taste sensation. Can be made with salmon, tuna, boneless chicken breast should be baked at 400 cooked to a temperature of 165 degrees F about 15-20 minutes, tofu even veggies like eggplant and zucchini slices...... Cod is a dense, flaky white flesh that is low in fat, so give it a..."

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Ingredients: pepper, dried parsley, panko...

"My mom makes this and its also very common in the Portuguese restaurants of SE New England. This is fantastic with spaghetti and even better with roasted potatoes."

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Ingredients: cumin, fish fillets...

"This pot roast needs no knives... it's tender and absolutely delicious. "Alcatra" comes from the term "alcatre", the Portuguese word for "rump", indicating that rump roast is preferred there for pot roasts, but I've prepared this with sirloin tip roast as well with fabulous results."

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Ingredients: cloves, lean bacon, garlic...

"This dish is named for the traditional pot it is cooked in. This version contains not only 2 kinds of fish, but shrimp, mussels, and clams as well. Traditionally, it is a thick stewed chock full of seafood. We prefer it more like a soup, hence the optional vegetable broth."

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Ingredients: shrimp, dry white wine...