Main dishes

I will admit upfront that this one is not Portuguese, it is French, from a summer I spent with a...

Ask anyone who grew up in Portugal what June smells like, and they won't say flowers. They'll say charcoal and...

The Algarve does not get nearly enough credit on this blog, mostly because my own family history runs through the...

Arroz de feijão malandrinho — “naughty” bean rice — is the soupy, soulful rice that Portuguese home cooking cannot function...

The bifana is Portugal’s greatest sandwich and one of its proudest street foods: paper-thin pork cutlets simmered in a garlicky...

Frango assado com piri-piri — Portuguese grilled chicken with bird’s-eye chili — is the dish that built a thousand churrasqueiras,...

I made this for the first time when I decided our dinner party rotation needed something that would actually make...

Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá is the aristocrat of the thousand cod recipes — and one of the few with...

Migas alentejanas are the Alentejo’s answer to stuffing, polenta and Yorkshire pudding all at once: day-old bread soaked and slowly...

Paella needs no introduction, but it deserves an honest one: the Valencian rice masterpiece is less about a rigid ingredient...