13 Facts About Portuguese cuisine

Oldest known book on Portuguese cuisine, entitled Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D Maria de Portugal, from the 16th century, describes many popular dishes of meat, fish, poultry and others.

Olive oil is one of the bases of Portuguese cuisine, which is used both for cooking and flavouring meals.

Portuguese cuisine dishes include meats, seafood, vegetables and legumes and desserts .

Portuguese cuisine steak, bife, is a slice of fried beef or pork marinated in spices and served in a wine-based sauce with fried potatoes, rice, or salad.

Traditional Portuguese cuisine cured chourico varieties are more meaty, often use red wine and not many spices.

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Farinheira is another Portuguese cuisine smoked sausage, which uses wheat flour as base ingredient.

Vegetables that are popular in Portuguese cuisine cookery include numerous cabbage and collard varieties, tomatoes, onions and peas.

Wine is the traditional Portuguese cuisine drink, the rose variety being popular in non-Portuguese cuisine markets and not particularly common in Portugal itself.

Probably the most famous of the Portuguese cuisine patisseries are the pasteis de nata, originally known as Pasteis de Belem in the Lisbon district with the same name in the early nineteenth century.

Portuguese cuisine imported spices, such as cinnamon now liberally used in its traditional desserts and savoury dishes, from Asia.

All over the world, Portuguese immigrants influenced the cuisine of their new "homelands", such as Hawaii and parts of New England.

Pao doce, malassadas, sopa de feijao, and Portuguese cuisine sausages are eaten regularly in the Hawaiian islands by families of all ethnicities.

Similarly, the "papo-seco" is a Portuguese cuisine bread roll with an open texture, which has become a staple of cafes in Jersey, where there is a substantial Portuguese cuisine community.