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TASTE OF PORTUGAL

The Portuguese are a people who express love, faith and friendship through their cooking. Sharing a taste of Portugal is a delicious way of understanding its culture. Let’s try!

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Daily Portuguese routine
The day begins with breakfast (pequeno-almoco). It is traditionally just coffee and a bread roll with butter, cheese or fruit preserves. Coffee tends to be served as espresso (uma bica in the south, um café in the north) or um galão, which is a milky coffee served in a glass. Lunch (almoco) is eaten usually from 1 - 3 pm and it contains soup and a hot meal. The last food is a dinner (jantar) generally served late - about 8 pm - and again is a cooked meal.

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Traditional meals
Fishes! Portugal has a passion for seafood. Although most regions have their own special dishes, some meals are common to the whole country. The national dish is bacalhau, dried, salted cod. The Portuguese have been obsessed with it. Bacalhau can be cooked in 365 different ways, one for each day of the year. Sardines are close behind in popularity and can be grilled or barbequed, or there is the arroz de marisco, which is a bit like a seafood risotto. Meats! Probably favorite kind of meat is pork, cooked and served in a variety of ways. Roast suckling pig (leităo assado) is popular in the north of the country, as are pork sausages called "chouriço" or linguiça.

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Soups! Staple foods in Portugal are the various soups. The most common is caldo verde (thick vegetable soup) with potatoes, shredded cabbage, and chunks of sausage. Cheeses! The most common varieties are made from sheep or goat's milk and the most popular is "queijo da serra" from the region of Serra da Estrela. Desserts! Chocolate mousse, almond cake and dose de ovos, made from eggs and sugar and many others pastry are extremely delicious. The most typical desserts are cinnamon-flavored rice pudding, flan and small caramel custard tart called „pastel de nata”. Spirits and beverages! There are many regional wines and beers. Obviously Porto and Madeira wine are the most famous, but these parts of cuisine needs to be explored individually by everyone. So, forget the waistline! Enjoy Portuguese meal.

Ewelina Poleszak
ewelina.cultura.rum@gmail.com