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Holy Week is a festival deeply rooted throughout the Christian world, but in each region, it has its peculiarities in respect of customs, processions and even days of celebration. These differences also affect gastronomy, which plays a very important role in these dates when it ends with the fast of Lent. Therefore, for all who visit Portugal during April, here are some recommendations of the most traditional dishes of Portuguese Easter.
We start with the most indisputable, the baked lamb on Easter Sunday. It is a filling dish, designed to be enjoyed with the family. In fact, that day practically everything will be closed in Porto, including the wine cellars, so if you want to visit them, we recommend you to book the Old Town and Wine Tour for one of the previous days.
There are also desserts linked with Easter meals, such as the folar da Páscoa, a loaf of bread, milk, eggs, butter and sugar. Eggs are a constant in desserts on these dates, since they were considered meat and could not be eaten during Lent, so they were kept cooked and consumed to celebrate the end of the fast.
Precisely for this fast, during the rest of the week there are many different recipes that have something in common: avoid meat. When entering the field of fish, in Portugal we cannot stop naming cod. We already told you about the most typical recipes for cod in Porto. Now, we bring you two more: the bacalhau dos solteiros, with milk cream, parmesan, garlic, onion, and pepper; and the bacalhau mantecato, with milk, butter and onion.
But there is not only cod in Portugal, and to prove it you can try the classic lulas recheadas (stuffed squid) or shrimp to São Paulo or Luanda styles, a sample of the colonial influence on Portuguese cuisine. The latter is especially delicious, but it is served in very few places in Porto. To discover which ones, don't forget to ask your guide when he talks about the Portuguese colonial expansion in Ribeira.
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Labels: Gastronomy , Porto