How about a lesson that ends in a tasty reward? For all you omnivores out there, let’s explore some vocabulary in context for different types of meat, vegetables, and other ingredients with these family receitas
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recipes contributed by one of our team members and his mother. Thanks Eduardo and Fernanda! 🙌
Learn the vocabulary in the ingredients list and then challenge yourself to remember it in the recipe steps.
Carolos à Moda da Beira-Alta (Beira-Alta Style Carolos)
Ingredients:
- 175
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gramas
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grams de
Play slow audio Play normal audio of carolos de milho Play normal audio coarse cornmeal, similar to grits or polenta
- 500 Play normal audio gramas de couratos limpos Play normal audio raw pork rinds
- 500 Play normal audio gramas de entrecosto Play normal audio spare ribs
- uma cabeça de alho picada Play normal audio a head of minced garlic
- folha de louro Play normal audio bay leaf
- vinho tinto Play normal audio red wine
- 1.3
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litros
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liters de água
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- sal Play normal audio salt
Step 1
Marinate the couratos limpos
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and entrecosto
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for two days before the meal. Cut the meat aos pedaços
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in pieces and place it in a alguidar
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bowl with a head of minced alho
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, 2 folhas de louro
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, sal
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, and vinho tinto
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. Atenção: O vinho deverá cobrir a carne
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Attention: The wine should cover the meat
Step 2
On the day of the meal, wash the carolos
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several times in order to remove the bran (outer layer).
Step 3
Add the carolos
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and água
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to a panela
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pot, season with sal
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, and cook for about meia hora
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half an hour on medium-high heat.
Step 4
Finally, remove the meat from the marinade and add the meat to the panela
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, along with a little more vinho tinto
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. Let it cook for another half hour, stirring as needed.
Step 5
E está pronto a servir!
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And it's ready to serve!
Rancho à Moda de Viseu (Viseu-style Rancho)
Ingredients:
- 500g de vitela Play normal audio veal
- 500g de entrecosto Play normal audio spare ribs
- 500g de frango
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- 500g de entremeada Play normal audio sliced pork belly
- 1 chouriça de carne Play normal audio chorizo, meat sausage
- 300 Play normal audio gramas de grão Play normal audio chickpeas
- 400 Play normal audio gramas de massa macarrão Play normal audio macaroni pasta (straight tube-shaped cut pasta, not elbow macaroni)
- um quilo Play normal audio 1 kg de batatas Play normal audio potatoes
- 4 cenouras Play normal audio carrots
- 1 couve portuguesa Play normal audio collard greens, Portuguese cabbage
- 1 cebola Play normal audio onion
- tomate Play normal audio tomato
- alho Play normal audio garlic
- louro Play normal audio bay (leaf)
- azeite
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- sal Play normal audio salt
Steps:
- The day before the meal, soak the grão Play normal audio to help them soften and cook better.
- On the day of the meal, coza o grão em água abundante temperada com sal Play normal audio cook the chickpeas in a large amount of water seasoned with salt
- In another pan cook the vitela Play normal audio
- When the veal is tenra
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tender, add the entremeada
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, the chouriça de carne
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, the entrecosto
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, and the frango
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- Entretanto Play normal audio Meanwhile, peel and corte Play normal audio cut the batatas Play normal audio , dice the cenoura Play normal audio , aos cubinhos Play normal audio into little cubes, shred the couve portuguesa Play normal audio , and set aside.
- After cooking, break the meat into pieces and reserve the água da cozedura Play normal audio cooking water
- Chop a cebola Play normal audio and some alho Play normal audio
- Heat azeite
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- When the onion starts to brown, add some tomate maduro Play normal audio ripe tomato and let it stew
- Add the pieces of meat and a little bit of the reserved água da cozedura Play normal audio
- Add the batatas descascadas Play normal audio peeled potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. Let cook for a few minutes.
- Add the macarrão
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macaroni and cook for about quinze
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- Add the cooked grão Play normal audio near the end
It would be wonderful if the cooking content,was written and everything in audio, where we could pause the audio and repeat it to ourselves while cooking, step by step. That would be real time learning Portuguese while cooking. The learning content will really sink in.
Thanks Isabel, good points! Maybe we could work on creating some recipes as Shorties. Just added this to the list. 🙂
Yes, please! Following recipes on YouTube has been an interesting challenge, since the dishes are all new to me. Pão de banana comes close to what I know! — but there are so many actions (chop, mince, slice, dice, whip, beat, stir, fold…) that it’s tricky to translate. https://receitasdoparaiso.pt/ has been a great resource for listening along to recipes!
I think it would be great to have a “Portuguese dish” section where you or others can list Portuguese recipes (as a way to become more familiar with the food, ingredients, culture and even trying them for maximum experience 🙂
love this!!! My grandmother made these recipe. She also made something she called (I’m spelling it phonetically) vine thaws o bacalhau. d
o you know it?Can you put it on a a shortie?
Not sure, but it could be “punheta de bacalhau”! Here’s a relevant Google search: Punheta de bacalhau