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Portuguese Cooking Without Vegetable Oil

Welcome to the tiled kitchens of Portugal, where every dish rests on honest fats. Golden azeite pressed from Alentejo olives, sweet farmhouse butter, and a spoonful of traditional banha when the recipe asks for it. No seed oils, no shortcuts, only the way the avós have always cooked.

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Portuguese Kitchen Classics

Six beloved dishes from the tables of Portugal. Each one made with olive oil, butter, or traditional lard, so the honest ingredients can speak for themselves.

Carne de Porco a Alentejana
Prato Principal

Carne de Porco à Alentejana

⏱ 2 hr 30 min🍽 4 servings🔥 Medium

The proud marriage of land and sea from the Alentejo. Pork marinated in red pepper paste and white wine, seared in banha, then finished with briny clams and fresh coriander.

Ingredients

  • 800 g pork shoulder, cut into 3 cm cubes
  • 3 tbsp massa de pimentão (sweet red pepper paste)
  • 6 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 200 ml dry white wine (Vinho Verde works beautifully)
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 500 g small clams, scrubbed and purged
  • 3 tbsp banha (pork lard)
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 600 g potatoes, cut into small cubes
  • Pickled cauliflower and carrots, to serve
  • Sea salt, black pepper, fresh coriander, lemon wedges

Instructions

  1. Rub the pork with the pepper paste, garlic, bay leaves, salt, and pepper. Pour over the white wine, cover, and marinate in the fridge overnight, or at least 4 hours.
  2. Warm the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat. Cook the potato cubes, turning often, until golden and tender, about 15 minutes. Season with salt and keep warm.
  3. Drain the pork well, reserving the marinade. Melt the banha in a large heavy pan over high heat and brown the pork in batches until deeply colored.
  4. Return all the pork to the pan, pour in the reserved marinade, and simmer 10 minutes until the sauce thickens slightly and the pork is cooked through.
  5. Raise the heat, add the clams, and cover. Cook 3 to 5 minutes, shaking the pan, just until the shells open. Discard any that stay closed.
  6. Fold in the golden potatoes, scatter generously with chopped coriander, and serve straight from the pan with pickles and lemon wedges.
Arroz de Marisco
Do Mar

Arroz de Marisco

⏱ 1 hr🍽 4 servings🔥 Medium

The soupy seafood rice of the Portuguese coast. Shrimp, mussels, and clams simmered with tomato and rice in a rich olive oil refogado, served bubbling at the table.

Ingredients

  • 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 large onion, finely chopped
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 4 ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped (or 400 g canned)
  • 1 red bell pepper, diced
  • 1.2 liters fish broth, kept hot
  • 300 g short grain rice (carolino or arborio)
  • 400 g large shrimp, shell on
  • 500 g mussels and clams, scrubbed
  • 1 small piri piri chili, minced (optional)
  • Sea salt, black pepper, fresh coriander, lemon

Instructions

  1. Warm the olive oil in a wide deep pan over medium heat. Cook the onion with a pinch of salt for 8 minutes until soft and sweet. Add the garlic and piri piri for the last minute.
  2. Add the tomatoes and bell pepper. Cook 8 to 10 minutes, crushing with the spoon, until the refogado turns thick and jammy.
  3. Stir in the rice and coat it in the sauce for 2 minutes. Pour in the hot fish broth and bring to a lively simmer.
  4. Cook uncovered 10 minutes, stirring now and then. The rice should stay loose and brothy, closer to a stew than a pilaf.
  5. Nestle in the shrimp and cook 3 minutes. Add the mussels and clams, cover, and cook 4 minutes more, just until the shells open.
  6. Season with salt and pepper, shower with chopped coriander, and bring the pan straight to the table with lemon wedges.
Tomatada com Ovos
Da Horta

Tomatada com Ovos

⏱ 40 min🍽 4 servings🔥 Easy

A humble Alentejo supper of ripe tomatoes stewed slowly in olive oil until silky, with eggs poached right in the sauce and crusty bread for dipping.

Ingredients

  • 6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 large onions, thinly sliced
  • 4 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 1 kg very ripe tomatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 pinch of sugar, if the tomatoes need it
  • 4 to 6 fresh eggs
  • Sea salt and black pepper
  • Thick slices of rustic bread, to serve

Instructions

  1. Warm the olive oil in a wide pan over medium low heat. Cook the onions with a pinch of salt for 12 minutes until completely soft and golden. Add the garlic for the last 2 minutes.
  2. Add the tomatoes, bay leaves, and oregano. Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Simmer gently, uncovered, for 20 minutes, stirring from time to time, until the tomatoes collapse into a thick, glossy sauce. Taste and add the pinch of sugar only if needed.
  4. Make small wells in the sauce with the back of a spoon and crack an egg into each one.
  5. Cover and cook 5 to 7 minutes, until the whites are set but the yolks are still soft.
  6. Rest 2 minutes off the heat, then bring the pan to the table and serve with plenty of bread for the sauce.
Sopa de Abobora
Sopa

Sopa de Abóbora

⏱ 50 min🍽 6 servings🔥 Easy

The velvety pumpkin soup that opens supper in homes all over Portugal. Sweet abóbora simmered with potato and onion, blended smooth, and finished with a ribbon of good azeite.

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus more to finish
  • 1 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 1 leek, white part only, sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 1 kg pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled and cubed
  • 1 medium potato, peeled and cubed
  • 1 carrot, sliced
  • 1.4 liters vegetable or chicken broth
  • Sea salt, black pepper, fresh thyme leaves

Instructions

  1. Warm the olive oil and butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook the onion and leek with a pinch of salt for 8 minutes until soft.
  2. Add the garlic, pumpkin, potato, and carrot. Stir for 3 minutes so the vegetables take on the flavor of the fat.
  3. Pour in the broth and bring to a simmer. Cook 25 minutes, until every vegetable is completely tender.
  4. Blend until velvety smooth, adding a splash of hot water if the soup feels too thick. Season with salt and pepper.
  5. Ladle into warm bowls and finish each one with a generous thread of extra virgin olive oil and a few thyme leaves.
Broa de Milho
Do Forno

Broa de Milho

⏱ 3 hr🍽 1 large loaf🔥 Medium

The dense, crackly cornbread of northern Portugal. Corn flour scalded the old way, folded with rye and wheat, and baked into a loaf made for caldo verde and good butter.

Ingredients

  • 300 g fine yellow corn flour
  • 150 g rye flour
  • 200 g strong bread flour, plus more for dusting
  • 350 ml boiling water
  • 150 ml warm water
  • 7 g dried yeast (1 packet)
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 10 g fine sea salt
  • Softened butter, for greasing the bowl
  • Extra corn flour, for the crust

Instructions

  1. Put the corn flour in a large bowl and pour over the boiling water, stirring into a thick paste. Let it cool until just warm, about 20 minutes.
  2. Dissolve the yeast and honey in the warm water and let it bubble for 10 minutes.
  3. Add the yeast mixture, rye flour, bread flour, and salt to the corn paste. Mix, then knead 10 minutes until you have a firm, slightly tacky dough.
  4. Shape into a ball, place in a buttered bowl, cover, and let rise in a warm spot for 1 hour 30 minutes, until nearly doubled.
  5. Shape the dough into a tall round, roll the top generously in corn flour, and set on a baking sheet. Rest 30 minutes while the oven heats to 230°C / 445°F with a tray on the bottom shelf.
  6. Slide the loaf in and pour a cup of water into the hot tray to create steam. Bake 40 to 45 minutes until the crust is deeply cracked and the base sounds hollow.
  7. Cool completely on a rack before slicing. Serve with butter, sardine pâté, or alongside a bowl of soup.
Bolo de Bolacha
Sobremesa

Bolo de Bolacha

⏱ 40 min + chill🍽 10 servings🔥 Easy

Portugal's beloved no bake biscuit cake. Layers of coffee dipped Maria biscuits and silky butter cream, chilled overnight until it slices like a dream.

Ingredients

  • 2 packs (about 400 g) Maria biscuits
  • 250 g unsalted butter, at cool room temperature
  • 200 g icing sugar, sifted
  • 3 tbsp strong espresso, cooled, for the cream
  • 300 ml strong coffee, cooled, for dipping
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 small pinch of fine sea salt
  • Dark chocolate shavings, to finish
  • A handful of crushed biscuits, to finish
  • Roasted coffee beans, to decorate (optional)

Instructions

  1. Beat the butter with an electric whisk for 3 minutes until pale and fluffy. Add the icing sugar in three additions, beating well after each.
  2. Beat in the vanilla, salt, and the 3 tbsp of espresso, one spoonful at a time, until the cream is completely smooth.
  3. Dip biscuits briefly in the cooled coffee, one by one, and arrange a tight circle on a serving plate. Spread with a thin, even layer of the butter cream.
  4. Repeat the layers, biscuits then cream, finishing with a layer of cream on top and around the sides.
  5. Cover loosely and chill at least 6 hours, ideally overnight, so the biscuits soften into tender cake like layers.
  6. Just before serving, scatter with chocolate shavings, crushed biscuits, and a few coffee beans. Slice with a warm knife.
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Cooking the Way Portugal Taught Us

Brimoa Cozinha grew out of a simple family habit: long Sunday lunches where the food was slow, the bread was warm, and the fat in the pan was something a grandmother would recognize. Olive oil from the press, butter from the farm, a spoonful of banha for the dishes that ask for it.

Somewhere along the way, refined seed oils crept into modern kitchens. We simply cook without them. Every recipe we publish is tested with the three traditional fats of the Portuguese table, nothing more, so the tomatoes, the bacalhau, the corn bread, and the coffee soaked biscuits can taste the way they always have.

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