Portuguese Recipes

"Entered for safe-keeping. From June 2012 Vegetarian Times. In Spain and Portugal, piri-piri or peri-peri are used as generic terms for hot sauces and chili powders used for barbecue. This recipe is smoky and hot, with a bitter-sour hint of lemon peel."

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Ingredients: ground oregano, garlic powder...

"This cake is found more in the center of Portugal, its a very moist cake, very creamy in the center as if it wasnt fully cooked. It is usually made in a special red clay cake pan, but a normal cake pan wil do, You can either use a tube cake pan or a simple round one. I myself have never made this particular cake, I am posting it for a member that..."

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Ingredients: egg yolks, eggs, sugar...

"I got this recipe many years ago from a local restaurant in New Jersey. The restaurant is still there, so I know this is a good one ! When I tell people how easy it is, they are always surprised. You can serve this over rice as a main course (yellow or white rice), or just serve it in the casserole dish with plenty of delicious Portuguese bread."

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Ingredients: shrimp, dry white wine, lemons...

"If I was making these vegan "tasting cookies" for company, I'd use a good white port, but I've made them with regular tawny and they were delicious as well. They're not overly sweet, but great to put on a cheese tray with fruit and crackers after dinner."

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Ingredients: fennel seeds, lemon zest...

"Another way to enjoy baked potatoes. Use a gluten-free chicken stock and piri-piri suace to make this recipe gluten-free suitable"

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Ingredients: fresh thyme, olive oil, onions...

"Portuguese style beans.A very meaty and satisfying bean dish, best served with a tossed green salad and chewy bread."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, diced tomatoes...

"Needed a spice blend for sausage and other recipes."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, cloves, pepper...

"This recipe is my take on the famous Portuguese nata pastry. Tradtionally this uses vanilla pudding, but you can use any pudding you like (Ive tried chocolate and vanilla and theyre both great). For the pie crust I used my variaton of Chicagoland Chef du Jour's amazing Recipe #282494."

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Ingredients: eggs, light brown sugar, oil...

"Acordas are a type of Portuguese traditional soup which are designed to make use of leftovers of the country’s much cherished staple food, stale bread. The Moors, the medieval Arabs who occupied the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years, made copious and imaginative use of stale bread, employing it to thicken, enrich and bulk out everything..."

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Ingredients: cilantro, eggs, olive oil...

"Succulent shrimps fried in olive oil with caramelized garlic. I received this recipe from a Portuguese acquaintance. He learned it from his mother. A recipe with roots! You can find a live frying instruction on my Youtube channel "cooking with Dorus"."

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Ingredients: shrimp, olive oil...

"This recipe comes from Gertrude's Gallery restaurant in Newport Rhode Island"

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Ingredients: diced tomatoes, fresh parsley leaves...