Eating out holds a
prominent position in Portuguese life.
Food in restaurants is of good quality, based on fresh local products.
You will find the best - value - for money dining is in the simplest
restaurants away from the main tourist centres.
Sardines and salad is a very popular dish in
the Algarve but don't miss out on ordering some more interesting
sea food dishes from the excellent variety that the Atlantic Ocean
offers - bass, bream, swordfish, lobsters, prawns,
-to name but a few.
Pork and chicken are the main
meat dishes.
The Portuguese eat pork in all its different forms, from whole roast suckling
pig to trotters with coriander. |
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starters=entradas
- chicken broth=canja
- clams=ameijoas
- dressed crab=santola recheada
- prawn=camarao
- smoked ham=presunto
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fish=peixe
- hallibut=rodovalho
- lobster=lagosta
- octopus with rice=arroz de polvo
- red mullet=salmonete
- salmon=salmao
- sea bass=robalo
- sole=linguado
- stuffed squid=lulas recheadas
- trout=truta
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meat=carne
- chicken casserole=frango
napucara
- duck with rice=arroz de pato
- pork=porco
- pork cooked on a spit=churrasco
- roast beef=carne assada
- roast kid=cabrito assado
- roast suckling pig=leitao assado
- steak sandwich=prego
- turkey=peru
- veal=vitela
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