Portuguese """"cuisine""""

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As a Brit I have a lot of admiration for their love and competence with seafood.

Their pastries are GOAT too.

Iberian food masterrace thread

I'm currently studying abroad and this thread is making me miss home.

>no love for the Bifana
Lisbonites need not apply

Still the best type of rice cake there is, I don't care what anyone says.

feijoada portuguese style is very diferent from brazilian style, also most stews with beans as the main carb can be more or less called feijoada

How about some lesser known dishes? I really like a good Orelheira (Pig's Ear Salad).

You spent 1 month in my country and are enough of an arrogant wanker to claim you know anything about it (hurrdurr there's only one kind of Feijoada and it's the favela monkeys's!!!)?
You're a fucking idiot.

Nerd who never got invited to parties alert

What that guy said:
Chickpeas are tasty

Portuguese food is fantastic, retard.

Portuguese food is good. Sure, you can jokingly reduce it to bean stews, salt cod, roast chicken, cheap wine, funky tasting olive oil, kale and potato soup and egg custards. A small country that hasn't been affluent for a while is not going to show the finesse and variety of neighbors like France and Spain. But if you take their cuisine for what it is, that of a tiny former naval power with good fishing and farming, Moorish influence and a good climate for both agriculture and viticulture you'll find a lot of great dishes, and great wines to go with them. It ends up being deeper than you'd expect because of how worldly this little seeming backwater happens to be. There's a few flavors of African influence here. a hint of Chinese there, brazenly Catholic use of pork everywhere and the Iberian love of seafood. How can you argue with that?

that looks pretty good, never seen it done like that, what part of the country is that from?

Our food is pretty good, even though Americans in general, don't enjoy it. The only thing our cuisine doesn't have is sophistication and refinement, portuguese food is usually presented the way it is WYSIWYG, and you really can't do much with it in terms of presentation when you compare it to others.

>Go to Belém
>Try the Pastéis de Nata

I don't even have a sweet tooth but that shit is god tier

Portuguese cuisine is awesome

Well put. I've only been once, but dated the daughter of Portuguese immigrants for a few years, then later lived a couple years in a heavily Portuguese immigrant neighborhood. I've experienced a lot of the cuisine, and I'm a fan of it. And you're right, the only thing it's lacking in is refinement. The flavors are generally on point. And some of the combinations are unique. Cooking clams with pork (or chorizo) is fucking brilliant. And a few slices of chorizo in the bottom of a bowl of potato kale soup is equally brilliant. Sure, it's the kind of stuff generations of farmers and fishermen would come up with, not cooks for bourgeois and royal courts. But like I said, the flavors are spot on.

Shit, now I want to make a trip to Newark.

Porto, our bifanas are more like a kebab with hot sauce rather than Lisbon's version which is just a pork steak on bread.

is that pimentao on them? Born and raised in the Setubal peninsula. Our bifanas are dry as fuck, never got into it.

Been living in the US for ten years, gained all kinds of weight and learned that we truly have something amazing back home. We have butcher shops real honest to god butcher shops, we have fresh fish which I never valued before, we have one mercado in every freguesia, good coffee in every corner, great pastries.

At the same time, I see the so called "modernization" coming and a lot of people even my parents, ignoring the good things we have had for a few generations, the butchers the fish monger the produce salesman won't be there if everytime you go buy food you walk into a pingo doce to get your packaged foods from poland.

Yeah, the sauce is a mix between pimentão, pepper, chilli peppers, olive oil, bay leaves, beer, whiskey, port wine and white wine, among others I can't remember right now (although usually people don't use all the possible ingredients at the same time), the meat is then cooked in the sauce. If you're ever back in Portugal and at Porto seek a place called Conga, they have big pans with the sauce going on all day, or course it's greasy and dirty as fuck but the accumulated flavor simply cannot be beat. Easily the best place I know for bifanas.

But we also have the same problem up here, the traditional Bolhão market was close to being closed before people started a movement for it's revival. It would be a shame if that place closed since it's pretty much the only place you can get a special kind of smoked sausages that are just perfect for francesinhas, used to be you could have a decent francesinha at just about any small place but now if you don't go to a reputable francesinha joint you just get cheap shit. But there are still many traditional stores that are just great.

Bolhao was gonna close? Fuck me...

I may one day go up to Porto, I want to come back home, I have had a shitty period of life one could say, been in middle of nowhere USA, there is another portuguese here, a woman in her 70s from Lajes who came here in the 60s and was from a higher up family in the islands. Essentially we are from two different worlds even though she is portuguese.

It did give me a different outlook on life, it helped me develop into someone who knows what I want and how I'm going to go about doing it, I want into van dwelling when I get back home, my parents are gonna shit when they hear about it. but they'll be happy to have me back and I'll be happy to be there for them. That is one thing I have learned being away from home, family means more to me than I ever thought it would. Ill keep in mind that place you mentioned.

Em setubal has de ir ao Mercado comer uma bifana na Ginjinha

Yep, people just shop at supermarkets and have no time for traditional markets these days. I can't fully blame them though, the economy isn't great and market tend to be more expensive. Also traditional markets close at around midday most of the time so that's a bit of a bother for many people.

I'm actually also abroad myself at the moment and I can't wait to go back in the summer to eat some god damn bifanas.

whats with the bifanas? maybe its just me, never been a fan. i love bacalhau a braz, its my all time favorite, frango assado from feira nova or pingo doce is better than any kfc and chic fil a chicken ever dreamed about being.

Hei de dizer ao meu irmao que por la vive. Ele que me tire umas fotos lol

Conga is open til 1-2am on weekends so it's the perfect midnight snack when you're out. Bifanas in general are simply one of the GOAT fast/street foods of Portugal.

I thought pic related was the GOAT of street foods in Portugal, no wonder I'm a fat ass.

Those are great too, although I prefer the non-filled ones these days. They're sweet enough as is.

theyre so damn good

>bite on one side
>filling shoots out from the other

amateur...

youtube.com/watch?v=2DAF21U8Bys

Scots-Irish here, I use them fairly often. In my family we use any and all beans we can get hold of. Other beans tend to be cheaper here, though, so if it isn't something that really benefits from chickpeas, we let the cheap skate genes take over.

>filling
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MUH HERITAGE!

whats wrong with what he said?

What is that green shit? Does it add any discernible flavor to the dish? Why put it on all three things?

I said filling instead of chocolate because there are more fillings than just chocolate.

Have you been bullied one too many times by some Scots-Irish kids because you're terrible at footie?

I didn't see anything wrong with what you said.

My grandmother did these.

I guess that's parsley. It's just for looks user, chill out.

Iberian peninsula = elder god tier food

>MUH HERITAGE!

these taste just like a creme filled donut

these taste better than any other pastry in the world

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Sorry if you couldn't handle your peers. It must have been terrible.

You saloios are breaking my heart. Of course traditions markets are important. As are traditional foods. In the 21st Century you may have to fight to protect them, just like your brothers in Spain, France and Italy are doing. The supermarket is a race to the bottom. If you don't support specialty shops selling good stuff at fair prices most of them will go out of business, and the few left will be those that cater to rich people only. Like in the US. You don't want that for your home. Fight for it if you have to when you get back.

Spaniard here, we buy at the market every saturday. Fisheries are specially important in this part of the country, I would hate it if I had to move to a country where you don't have this kind of stuff available.

How is the US in that regard? I may actually need to move there for work and the food implications really scare me, I don't want to lose my ways.

Salt
Pepper
Garlic
Onion
Chili seeds
Piri piri
Vegetable oil
Lemon juice
Basil
Chives

Marinade chicken over night in large zip lock bag in fridge.
Grill/bbq separately mix the remaining with corn starch and bring to a boil, with a brush add thicker marinade to chicken each time you flip it.

Eastern Mass here, I can't speak of the prices but plenty of my family members shop at Portuguese markets in the Southeastern part of the state (Fall River, New Bedford) and they usually buy a good range of food products..Don't know if it helps you at all.

Don't forget how Brazil came into being.

Napoleon kicked out the royal family of Portugal and they moved to the Amazon jungle to huff petrol and spread Zika?

It helps to know there are market places in the spirit of Portugal, it's basically almost the same as Spain in that regard, so yeah, thanks.

Yeah but you won't find that everywhere. butcher shops are a rare find in most american cities. Bakeries are also a rare find in most of the US, let me define that as in bakeries that actually make the products they sell from scratch with actual ingredients, not from wholesalers or mixes.

It will really depend on what you want fellow iberian. Not familiar with spanish cuisine but is it not at all like mexican food?

You just have to look for areas where immigrants moved to when they came to the US. The area where I grew up North of Boston used to have a very large Portuguese population but most of them have moved away; there are still some bakeries and whatnot that try to keep it alive but there are not as many as there used to be sadly. Like I said though the southern portion of the state still has a good sized population.

If you live near immigrant neighborhoods or where some kinds of traditional foods have been valued and kept alive you can eat well for cheap in the US. It's also easy if you're rich. But if you're a guy coming here with a job and shopping at the supermarket? You'll gain at least 15lbs in a year or two and come to the conclusion that most of what's tasty and affordable here is probably terrible for your health.

Because you can't really fins stuff like pic related. When you get a ham sandwich it will be made of the worst quality ham you can imagine, piled on 4-10x thicker, and always topped with shitty cheese. It's a quick run at high blood pressure and high cholesterol that keeps our Pharma and insurance companies in business.

putting even one thing with another thing and claiming it IS CUISINE!

America taught me this because they put sausage in bread and now its part of their cuisine.. the hotdog : )

Hotdog wieners is not really a sausage, boy

Watch it, bitch, Hot dogs are srs bsns in NYC and Chicago. If you think that's bullshit go have one in Germany, or better Denmark Or look at what Latin Americans make out of the shittiest possible hot dogs.

Fuck you and your hot dog opinions.

i would eat the shit out of that

They're called GARBANZO BEANS, you fucking plebes, and they're used to give just the right amount of texture to in my calico bean pots.

I'll thank you for not sullying their name further.

Dude, everytime I look at that I can't even...

Are you from the Beira or something? Where is a dish like that from? And is that dish cold? Is that onions mixed in with it or rice?

>calls people out for sullying garbanzo's name
>mixes them with other beans like they're some pleb bean that can't make it alone

Screw you, user!

i love all food down old south america way

Nice chili, looks authentic

>looks authentic
>authentic

what the hell does that even mean?

Why is southern Europe so damn poor?

Why are amerians so triggered?

As far as I know it's from about everywhere in Portugal, I'm from the north and at least it's considered typical here. Also yes it is served cold and those are onions.

I never seen that anywhere before, heard of it but just looks like a big plate of nope to me. South of the river here.

We do have a lot of nope tier food up north but it's all pretty good once you get past how weird they look.

I need this in my body

>Watch it, bitch, Hot dogs are srs bsns in NYC and Chicago
maybe in shitcago, certainly not in NYC

but I wouldn't put it past shitcago to wage unholy jihad over such a shitty food

Nice rack

>no paella in this thread

wtf Veeky Forums. I visted Lisbon like 8 years ago and ate some godlike paella on some boat based restaurant.

you know, the fact it was made in portugal doesnt make it typical portuguese, also you might just had seafood rice which , yes, is typical here

>implying brasilian food was ever served for a bridge opening

Where's the rice, farofa, couve, orange slices and hot sauce? Are you even trying to make decent feijoada Portugal?

Post your mommas recipe of a feijoada pa caralho

is this what youre calling feijoada?

This is a version of a "traditional" feijoada portuguesa.

I'll share my grandmothers recipe user.

Navy beans
Carrots
Onions
Potatos
Pork
Pork ribs

Boil them everything, not necessarily in the same pot but you know this, when you have everything boiled bring all to one pot add water from the previous boilings for flavor

when you done cooking all that together, add tomato paste with another onion, it will thicken.