Portuguese Cuisine

Portuguese cuisine is closely related to Mediterranean cuisine. The influence of Portugal's former colonial possessions is also notable, especially in the wide variety of spices used. These spices include piri piri (small, fiery chilli peppers) and black pepper, as well as cinnamon, vanilla and saffron. Olive oil is one of the bases of Portuguese cuisine both for cooking and flavouring meals. Garlic is widely used, as are herbs such as coriander and parsley. Portuguese breakfasts often consist of fresh bread, with butter, ham, cheese or fruit preserves, accompanied with coffee, milk, coffee with milk, tea or hot chocolate. Sweet pastries are also very popular, as well as breakfast cereal, mixed with milk or yogurt and fruit. Lunch, often lasting over an hour is served between noon and 2 o'clock or between 1 and 3 o'clock, and dinner is generally served late, around or after 8 o'clock. There are three main courses, lunch and dinner usually include soup. A common soup is caldo verde with potato, shredded kale, and chunks of chouriço sausage. Among fish recipes, salt cod (bacalhau) dishes are pervasive. The most typical desserts are rice pudding (decorated with cinnamon) and caramel custard. There is also a wide variety of cheeses made from cow, sheep or goat's milk or even mixture of different kinds of milk. The most famous are queijo da serra from the region of Serra da Estrela, São Jorge cheese from the Portuguese island of São Jorge, and Requeijão. A popular pastry is the pastel de nata, a small custard tart often sprinkled with cinnamon.

Wow.. There are so many cuisines from Portugal. So many ... And so nice ... as the people there. And.. Here are some Portuguese Cuisines I brought for you. Just click on the tittle below to get them :

1 Portuguese Kale Soup
2 Caldo Verde
3 Captain Duarte's Salt Cod Cakes
4 Chourico Stew
5 Codfish with Cream
6 Easy Portuguese Cookies
7 Kale Soup
8 Espetadas  - Portuguese Beef Shish Kabobs
9 Kale Soup with Portuguese Sausage
10 Malasadas
11 Malasadas Dois
12 Portuguese Beef Stew
13 Pork with Clams
14 Portuguese Bean Soup
15 Portuguese Beef - Cacoila
16 Portuguese Chicken Soup
17 Portuguese Chourico and Peppers
18 Portuguese Chourico
19 Portuguese Favas
20 Portuguese Pork Alentejana
21 Portuguese Pork and Clams
22 Portuguese Roll Ups
23 Portuguese Steamed Clams
24 Portuguese Sweet Rice
25 Queijadas
26 Spicy Red Bean Soup
27 Wine and Garlic Pork - Portuguese Vina Dosh
28 Piri-Piri Pawns and Harissa Couscous
29 Peri Peri Roast Chicken
30 Lamb Shank Chanfana
31 Portuguese Feijoada with Shredded Pork
32 Spiced Portuguese Pork Roast
33 Portuguese Rice Pudding with Grilled Mandarins

Get them all... Trying to cook will be better for you ... or you ... just want to know what kind of  food you may have when you visit this country. OK. HAPPY DAY !!