Ask a room of Portuguese people to name the ultimate comfort bacalhau dish and bacalhau com natas wins by acclamation: shredded salt cod and crispy fried potatoes folded into a nutmeg-scented cream sauce, baked...
Folar da Páscoa is the sweet bread that means Easter in Portugal: soft, fragrant with cinnamon and orange, and traditionally baked with whole eggs nestled on top. My grandmother made it every year, and...
Bolos lêvedos are soft, slightly sweet Portuguese muffins from the Azores, cooked on a griddle until golden — think of them as a cross between an English muffin and a sweet bread, only better....
Bitoque is Portugal’s everyday steak plate: a thin, garlicky steak crowned with a fried egg, served alongside fries, rice and salad, and finished with a creamy wine-and-mustard pan sauce. You will find it on...
Bolas de Berlim are Portugal’s answer to the doughnut and, in my entirely biased opinion, they win. Inspired by the German Berliner but bigger, lighter and more generously filled, you will find them in...
Rissóis de carne are the little half-moons that no Portuguese party table is allowed to be without: a soft cooked dough around a savory meat filling, breaded and fried to golden perfection. Every family...
Farófias taste like my grandmother’s kitchen. She made them every Christmas Eve: clouds of poached meringue floating on a silky egg custard, with cinnamon and lemon perfuming the whole house while we hovered impatiently...
Pataniscas de bacalhau are pastéis de bacalhau’s free-spirited Lisbon cousin: instead of a shaped potato-cod dough, these are loose, lacy fritters of shredded salt cod in a light batter, fried until the edges go...
Camarão à guilho is Portugal’s take on garlicky shrimp — cousin to the Spanish gambas al ajillo, but with our own accent: olive oil perfumed with sliced garlic and chili, a squeeze of lemon,...
If Porto had to choose one dish to represent it, the francesinha would win by a landslide. It was born in the 1950s at the restaurant A Regaleira, where Daniel David Silva set out...
