Portugal’s cuisine is within the category of Mediterranean cuisine but takes the particularity of receiving input from its former colonies in Asia, Africa and America. It also adopted some aspects of Arabic and Spanish cuisine.
Portuguese landscape defined by the sea, fields and mountains is what makes the trend of your own kitchen. Cod is the jewel of the country and some people say that there are 365 different ways of cooking. After this dish star, comes in order of importance, pork, sausages and great variety of cheeses. As dressing, is often used a variety of olive oils.
The salted cod and cure the fundamental key is the desalted preparation. Once this is done, each chef displays his own recipe to cook: it can be to be braised cod, à Gomes Sá, cod in a delicious stew or pataniscas, which is a thin fritters accompanied by a delicious feijoada with rice. As for the fish in general, there is a strong tradition of eating them in spits that are kind of kebabs such as sardines. Bream, tuna, grouper, octopus, shrimp, clams, shrimp and prawns complete supply of seafood.
The traditional Portuguese meals begin with soup, including the most used are the caldo verde soup, and gazpacho Nabiças. Then comes a main dish of meat or fish, and finally a dessert. The most typical desserts are cakes Portugal Belem, the candy made ??from sweet orange, quesadas Sintra, egg cakes or Aveiro Alentejo as well as rice pudding, flan and crème brûlée.