List of Portuguese dishes facts for kids

Carne de porco à alentejana is one of the most traditional and popular pork dishes of Portuguese cuisine

Espetada, a Portuguese beef dish, being grilled

This is a list of Portuguese dishes and foods. Despite being relatively restricted to an Atlantic sustenance, Portuguese cuisine has many Mediterranean influences. Portuguese cuisine is famous for seafood. 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 chili peppers), black pepper and white pepper, as well as cinnamon, vanilla, clove, cumin, allspice and saffron. Olive oil is one of the bases of Portuguese cuisine, which is used both for cooking and flavouring meals. Garlic is widely used, as are herbs, such as bay leaf, coriander, oregano, thyme, rosemary and parsley, being the most prevalent. Portuguese beverages are also included in this list.

Portuguese dishes

Bacalhau com natas

Dobradinha

Portuguese stew - Cozido à Portuguesa

Migas

Sardinhas assadas

pastéis de bacalhau

Breads

• Bica d'azeite
• Bolo do caco
• Broa
• Broa de Avintes
• Fogaça da Feira
• Folar
• Pão de Mafra
• Pão doce

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  Broa de Avintes

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  Portuguese sweet bread

Cheeses

Rabaçal cured cheese

Transmontano cheese

• Queijo de Azeitão
• Queijo de Cabra Transmontano
• Queijo de Évora
• Queijo de Nisa
• Queijo de Tomar
• Queijo do Pico
• Queijo fresco
• Queijo mestiço de Tolosa
• Queijo Rabaçal
• Queijos da Beira Baixa
  • Queijo Amarelo da Beira Baixa
  • Queijo de Castelo Branco
  • Queijo Picante da Beira Baixa
• Queijo São Jorge
• Queijo Serpa
• Queijo Serra da Estrela
• Queijo Terrincho
• Requeijão
• Saloio
• Santarém cheese
• Travia da Beira Baixa

Desserts and sweets

A bola de Berlim from Portugal

Arroz doce from Portugal

Madeira honey cake - Bolo de Mel da Madeira

Chocolate salami, salame de chocolate

Quince marmalade - Marmelada

Natas do Céu dessert

Angel's double-chin - Papo d’Anjo

Priscos Abbot pudding - Pudim Abade de Priscos

Sausages

• Alheira
• Azaruja sausage
• Botelo
• Chouriço
• Enchido
• Farinheira
• Linguiça
• Momas
• Morcela
• Paia
• Paio
• Paiola
• Tripa enfarinhada

Soups and stews

• Açorda
• Caldo do forno
• Caldo verde
• Canja a doentes
• Canja de galinha
• Caril de frango
• Cebolada
• Chora de bacalhau
• Cozido à portuguesa
• Gaspacho
• Sopa da Beira
• Sopa da pedra
• Sopa de agrião e feijão (watercress and beans)
• Sopa de bacalhau dos campinos
• Sopa de cação
• Sopa de casamento
• Sopa de castanhas
• Sopa de lingueirão
• Sopa de peixe
• Sopa de tomate com ovos escalfados
• Vinhadalhos
• Xarém – a thick soup from Algarve, Portugal.

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  Caldo verde served in a traditional tigela

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  Xarém of the Algarve

Beverages

Galão

• Abatanado
• Bica
• Café com cheirinho
• Carioca
• Galão
• Garoto
• Laranjada
• Mazagran
• Meia de leite
• Pingado

Regional specialities

• Bolo do caco (Madeira)

A Bolo do caco stand in Madeira

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  Location of Madeira (circled on lower-left of map)

See also

• Cataplana – a cookware item used to prepare Portuguese seafood dishes
• List of Portugal food and drink products with protected status
• Macanese cuisine – is unique to Macau and consists of a blend of southern Chinese and Portuguese cuisines
• Portuguese wine