Our very own David Leite shares the recipes behind the drama-drenched Thanksgiving stuffings he grew up with at his family’s Portuguese table.
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Recipes from The New Portuguese Table
Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Spain, Portugal is today’s hot-spot vacation destination, and world travelers are enthralled by the unique yet familiar cuisine of this country. The New Portuguese Table looks at this fascinating country’s 11 surprisingly different historical regions, as well as the island of Madeira and the Azores, and their food culture, traditional dishes, and wines. This book also showcases Portugal’s pantry of go-to ingredients, such as smoked sausages, peppers, cilantro, seafood, olive oil, garlic, beans, tomatoes, and bay leaves—all common in American kitchens and now combined in innovative ways.
Portuguese Sausage, Ham, and Cheese Bread
These breads are chockfull of Portuguese sausage, including chouriço and presunto. Practically a meal in themselves.
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Orange Olive Oil Cake
This classic Portuguese dessert with its tender crumb and citrus smack tastes as stunning as it looks. Swear.
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Portuguese Sausage Frittata
Guess which recipe David begged to have for a late Sunday night supper after the Ed Sullivan show? (Hint: This one.)
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Fritada com Chouriço e Batatas
Adivinhe qual era a receita favorita do David aos Domingos à noite, depois do programa “The Ed Sullivan show”? Dica: Esta!
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Portuguese Red Pepper Paste
Each Portuguese family has its own rendition of this classic, a pantry staple known as massa de pimentão. Here’s how the Leite family makes it.
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Grilled Shrimp with Piri-Piri Sauce
A simple hot pepper sauce made from piri-piri peppers brings big flavor to shrimp in mere minutes. Those Portuguese know what they’re doing.
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Portuguese Sweet Lemon-Black Olive Cookies
We think these conversation-starting cookies defy the laws of physics. When you experience what big flavors they flaunt for something so thin, we think you, too, will be convinced.
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Portuguese Onions, Chestnuts, and Bacon
This sautéed onions, chestnuts, and bacon recipe is salty, caramel-y, and ideal-y as a Thanksgiving side dish.
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Portuguese White Gazpacho with Crab
This pale Portuguese-inspired soup and salad makes up for in taste what it lacks in tradition.
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Portuguese Duck Risotto
A dreamy, creamy riff on the classic arroz de pato, this dish call in flavor favors from duck, cured ham, spicy sausage, and tangy oranges.
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Clams and Sausage in a Cataplana
Clams, spicy sausage, onions, tomatoes, garlic, and aromatics meld in a Portuguese cataplana, a sorta precursor of the pressure cooker
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Milk Mayonnaise
Known as maionese de leite in Portuguese, milk mayonnaise–you heard us–is an incredibly creamy, eggless emulsion held together by oil, milk (natch), and a lotta love.
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Portuguese Green Olive Dip
For this dip, green olives are stirred into an eggless ‘mayonnaise’ made with milk, oil, anchovies, garlic, and white pepper. A tasty Portuguese olive dip.
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