Authentic Portuguese Cooking
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An Encyclopedic Collection of Recipes from One of the World's Most Cherished Food Cultures Ana Patuleia Ortins will help you travel to and experience the unique paradise of Portugal without setting foot on a plane. Portugal is known for its cuisine that while mild in spice, is rich in flavor. As the authority on Portuguese cooking, Ana highlights the fare through an encyclopedic look into her family's cooking and the country's history.
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About this book
Ana Patuleia Ortins gathers more than 185 recipes from Portugal in this cookbook. Dishes come from the mainland as well as the Atlantic island regions of the Azores and Madeira. Ortins builds the collection around her own family's kitchen and the country's food history, presenting Portuguese cooking as mild in spice yet full of flavour. The result is arranged like an encyclopedia of a national table.
The recipes follow the shape of a complete meal. Meat dishes include beef kabobs cooked with garlic and Madeira wine, and pork tenderloin stuffed with mushrooms and served in a pomegranate sauce. Salt cod appears grilled alongside potatoes in a preparation linked to Saint Martin. Vegetable sides include kale sauteed with onions and pine nuts, and there is bread baked at home.
Instructions are set out stage by stage, so a cook can follow each step without prior experience of this cuisine. Geography shapes the differences the book records: the Azores lie far out in the mid-Atlantic, while Madeira sits nearer the coast of northwest Africa. Ortins treats the islands and the mainland as parts of one national kitchen rather than separate curiosities.
