How to properly desalinate cod
Learn about soaking time, water changes, refrigerator, and the correct point to safely desalinate cod.
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Techniques of Portuguese Cuisine
Practical guides to get the basics, points, and important preparations of Portuguese cuisine right.
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A large part of Portuguese cuisine depends on well-executed simple techniques: desalting cod, not drying out fish, cooking octopus, preparing rice, using olive oil correctly, and assembling dishes with balance.
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Cod, octopus, and fish
Techniques to care for delicate ingredients and avoid bad texture.
How to choose cod
Understand appearance, cuts, thickness, smell, salt, and uses to buy cod with more confidence.
Essential techniquesHow to cook cod without drying it out
See how to heat, scald, roast, and finish cod while keeping flakes moist and flavorful.
Essential techniquesHow to make tender octopus
Learn to cook octopus for salads, rice, lagareiro, and Portuguese dishes without making it rubbery.
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Rice, potatoes, broths, and açorda
Portuguese bases for pot, oven, and bread.
How to prepare fluffy Portuguese rice
Tips for side rice, tomato rice, turnip greens rice, and Portuguese bases with good texture.
Essential techniquesHow to make smashed potatoes
See how to cook, smash, and roast smashed potatoes with olive oil, garlic, and golden skin.
Essential techniquesHow to prepare caldo verde
Practical guide to getting the texture, kale, potato, and chorizo right in Portuguese caldo verde.
Essential techniquesHow to make açorda
Understand the base of bread, garlic, olive oil, coriander, and broth that gives soul to Portuguese açordas.
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Olive oil, board, and table
Techniques for serving, assembling, and using ingredients.
How to use olive oil in Portuguese cuisine
Know when to use olive oil for sautéing, finishing, roasting, dressing salads, and enhancing Portuguese recipes.
Essential techniquesHow to assemble a Portuguese board
Assemble a board with cheeses, cured meats, breads, preserves, olives, olive oil, and sweets in Portuguese style.
Essential techniquesHow to set a Portuguese table for guests
Tips on dishware, serving platters, order of service, breads, olive oil, sweets, and hospitality in Portuguese style.
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Recipes to practice
Start with recipes where the technique is clear in the result.
Bacalhau à lagareiro
Cod steaks roasted with smashed potatoes, garlic, and plenty of olive oil.
Cod · Beiras / NationalPolvo à lagareiro
Tender octopus roasted with smashed potatoes, garlic, and abundant olive oil.
Fish and seafood · National / BeirasSmashed potatoes
Small boiled potatoes, lightly smashed and golden with olive oil and garlic.
Starters and snacks · NationalAçorda alentejana
Bread soup with garlic, coriander, olive oil, and egg, deeply connected to Alentejo.
Soups and broths · AlentejoTomato rice
Moist rice with tomato, onion, garlic, and olive oil, a classic side for fish.
Starters and snacks · NationalCaldo verde
Portuguese soup of potato, finely chopped kale, olive oil, and slices of chorizo.
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