Portuguese Cuisine

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Fire and passion are the hallmarks of Portuguese cuisine. It's all about cooking over hot coals and branding food with white hot irons. It is an earthy peasant style of quite simple food using few ingredients but with strong flavours as see in the now famous Portuguese charcoal chicken.

Portuguese cuisine is born from the earth - hearty peasant fare full of strong flavours, many charting the culinary history of the country. For instance, the famous dried salt cod or bacalhau changed the course of Portuguese history - when it was discovered the beautiful white fish caught in the cold Scandinavian waters could be dried and kept for long periods, sailors were able to go on long voyages of discovery to new lands, which then opened up trade routes. So loved is bacalhau that there are recipe books enirely devoted to it, with a range of recipes from around the country.

Paprika, bay leaves, garlic and wine feature largely in many dishes, olive oil is adored and used to cook food as well as finish dishes. Pork is a favourite meat and is used in the famous chourico sausage, smoked over wood with heady aromas of garlic and paprika. Also cooked over charcoal is the now familiar Portuguese chicken which has been a huge hit in Australia - we all love the flattened marinated chicken served with chilli spiked piri piri sauce - a recipe developed in Angola when it was a Portuguese colony. Desserts rely heavily on eggs - think creme caramel, rice pudding and the famous custard tarts or pasteis de nata.

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Portuguese Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 31 Portuguese Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Vasco's Portuguese Charcoal Grill	Kingston
2.	Sabroso	Seddon
3.	Greco's on Broadway	Nedlands
4.	Madeira Grill	Petersham
5.	Little Portugal	Dulwich Hill
6.	Silvas	Petersham
7.	Anada Bar and Restaurant	Fitzroy
8.	Vaby's Mediterranean Grill Campbelltown	Campbelltown
9.	Vaby's Mediterranean Grill Penrith	Penrith
10.	Illawong Foodroom	Evans Head