Appetizers

Mejillones al ajillo are Spain’s garlic mussels, and they follow tapas logic at its best: a few excellent ingredients, high...

Rissóis de carne are the little half-moons that no Portuguese party table is allowed to be without: a soft cooked...

Pataniscas de bacalhau are pastéis de bacalhau’s free-spirited Lisbon cousin: instead of a shaped potato-cod dough, these are loose, lacy...

Camarão à guilho is Portugal’s take on garlicky shrimp — cousin to the Spanish gambas al ajillo, but with our...

Empadas de bacalhau are the little pies you see behind every Portuguese café counter, and the codfish version is a...

If Portugal had a national snack, pastéis de bacalhau would win without a recount. These codfish fritters — crisp outside,...