Portuguese Recipes
38 recipes found
Cajuzinho ( Cashew Candy)
A long time ago, this Portuguese cajuzinho candy recipe would be made with cashew, but years of history passed and now we make it with peanuts for simplicity.
Grandma's Chicken Soup (Canja)
This is a typical Portuguese soup recipe called canja, easy to make, and very nutritious. You should give it a try, especially if you like chicken soup.
Portuguese Fish Stew
Portuguese Turkey With Bread Stuffing
Potatoes and Sausages
Turkey Stuffing
Gravy for Turkey
Grilled Fish Setubal Style
Kale Soup With Potatoes and Sausage
Though kale probably originated in the dry heat of the Mediterranean, it became a fixture in the kitchens of northern Europe. In Scotland, according to the author Elizabeth Schneider, "to come to cail," was an invitation to come to dinner. Recent devotees extol the virtues of undercooked kale. But having spent five winters in Provincetown, Mass., where the Portuguese eat their kale with sausage or fish, I grew to like mine similar to theirs: slow-simmered in bacon or sausage fat, or braised in chicken broth until it's soft and sweet.
Caldo Verde (Potato and Greens Soup With Sausage)
Caldo verde (“green broth”) is a beloved Portuguese soup, named for the shredded collard greens (or sometimes kale) that give it an earthy tinge. Made with basic ingredients, the humble soup is naturally creamy from potatoes that simmer in chicken broth until supertender. A paprika- and garlic-spiked smoked pork sausage imparts complex flavor. Fully cooked Portuguese chouriço or thinner linguiça are typical, but Spanish chorizo, which can be a bit heavier on the paprika, can also be used. Some versions call to purée the base of the soup, while other variations call to leave it chunky. This recipe has the best of both worlds, with bites of potato remaining in the velvety broth. The greens are just briefly simmered to maintain some bite, but can be cooked longer if softer greens are desired.
Clam and Chouriço Dressing
Massachusetts is the birthplace of the iconic Thanksgiving tableau, the home to Norman Rockwell, whose 1943 painting “Freedom From Want” gives Americans its most enduring vision of the holiday table. It is also home to one of the largest Portuguese-American communities in the United States and the source of one of the nation’s most flavorful hyphenated cuisines. Matthew Jennings, the chef and an owner of the forthcoming Townsman restaurant in Boston, pays homage to that cooking with a New Bedford-style Thanksgiving dressing made with local Massachusetts quahog clams and the Portuguese sausage known as chouriço. Fresh chorizo is an acceptable substitution, but canned clams are not.
The Temporary Vegetarian: A Portuguese Empada
The Portuguese-born, New York-based chef Luisa Fernandes makes a savory empada — Portuguese stuffed pastry — that is similar to a ratatouille wrapped in puff pastry. She sautés eggplant, tomatoes, squash, onions and garlic, and once the vegetables are cooled, she tucks them into the pastry in muffin tins, and bakes them until they are golden. Serve them for lunch with a salad.
Potato and Chouriço Soup With Crunchy Kale
Portuguese Egg Custard Tarts
These diminutive egg tarts — pasteis de nata — a specialty all over Portugal, have a cinnamon flavored custard nestled in a flaky puff pastry crust. The trick here is to bake them in a very hot oven, which causes the custard to puff and the pastry to turn brown and crunchy. You can make the crust and filling ahead, but don’t bake them more than an hour or two before serving. They’re at their best still warm.
Portuguese Sangria
This sangria, with a base of sturdy Portuguese red wine, has enough heft to accompany complex dishes like arroz gordo from Macau or a big party-size paella. You can temper it by adding 12 ounces of sparkling water to the ingredients after they've been combined.
Chicken With Clams
This is a dish inspired by the classic Portuguese pork with clams (usually called á alentejana, because it’s from Alentejo), a magnificent expression of surf and turf, with the brininess of the clams almost overwhelmingly flavoring the pork. Here, it’s done with chicken, which is more reliably tender (good pork is harder to find than good chicken) and marries with the clam juice equally well. It can also be made in a kind of Chinese style, by adding not only ginger to the garlic but also sesame oil and soy sauce.
South Coast Portuguese Fish Chowder
Arroz Frito Portuguesa (Fried Rice)
At first glance, the fried rice of Macao looks like the ordinary Chinese variety. But Macanese cooks flavor it with the saffron, tomatoes and olive oil of Portugal. The rich amalgam of flavors can be traced to the travels of the spice traders during the late-15th and early-16th centuries.
Grilled Bluefish With Chourico And Clams
Farofias (Poached Meringues In Lemon Custard With Cinnamon)
Acorda A Alentejana (Bread-Thickened Garlic-Coriander Soup)
Cataplana
Portuguese-Style Steamed Mussels