If Portugal held an election for its favorite bacalhau dish, bacalhau à Brás would be a serious contender: shredded salt cod tangled with crispy shoestring potatoes and golden onions, all bound together with softly...

Bacalhau à Zé do Pipo is comfort food with a pedigree: flaky salt cod under golden mayonnaise, ringed by piped mashed potatoes and baked until bubbling. It was created in Porto by the owner...

Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato carry the name of a 19th-century poet who was, by all accounts, a better gourmet than versifier — and this dish is his true legacy: fresh clams opened in olive...

Arroz doce is the dessert that measures a Portuguese cook: creamy rice pudding perfumed with lemon peel and cinnamon stick, enriched with egg yolks, and finished with cinnamon on top — traditionally in elaborate...

Feijoada de marisco flips Portugal’s famous bean stew toward the coast: instead of the pork-heavy classic, white beans simmer in a smoky sofrito and wine-laced seafood broth, then welcome shrimp, clams and squid in...

Queijadas de leite are the queijada family’s gentlest member: no cheese at all despite the name, just a silky milk custard — milk, eggs, sugar, a whisper of lemon — baked in a light...

This is my weeknight version of camarão à guilho — the wine-and-paprika take on Portugal’s garlicky shrimp. Where the classic keeps things ascetic (garlic, oil, lemon), this one deglazes the pan with white wine...

Canja de galinha is Portugal’s chicken soup — and Portugal’s answer to nearly everything: illness, heartbreak, cold weather, new babies, late nights. A clear, golden broth from a good hen, tiny pasta, shredded chicken...

Every Brazilian family barbecue has a bowl of this potato salad on the table, and once you try it you will understand why. Tender potatoes, boiled eggs and onion in a creamy dressing of...

Canjica is Brazil’s answer to rice pudding, made with white corn instead: dried kernels simmered in milk, coconut milk and condensed milk with cinnamon and cloves until sweet, creamy and impossibly comforting. It is...