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Portugal

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Doce de abóbora with walnuts on a warm ivory background.

Doce de abóbora with walnuts

Portuguese pumpkin jam cooked with cinnamon and optional walnuts. A sweet spread to refrigerate or freeze, rather than a home-canned preserve.

Portugal · Modern method
· Vegetables
Illustrative serving still life of a whole rounded bone-in Presunto de Barroso-style ham and thin slices with deep red meat and pale fat; no producer or certification is implied.
High risk

Presunto de Barroso

Smoked dry-cured pork ham of the Barroso highlands of northern Portugal: hand-salted, sometimes coated with olive oil and paprika, then smoked slowly over oak or broom in the cold mountain air.

Barroso · Traditional method
· Meat
Illustrative pão alentejano: rustic round wheat loaf with the characteristic raised folded testa and pale crumb; not a verified photo of the recipe batch.

Pão alentejano (yeast-preferment loaf)

A rounded Alentejo wheat loaf with a raised folded head. This home adaptation uses a fresh-yeast preferment, then proofs the shaped loaf and bakes it with steam.

Alentejo · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A shallow ivory dish of small green-yellow Negrinha de Freixo table olives on a warm ivory tabletop.

Azeitona de conserva Negrinha de Freixo

A Portuguese table-olive product from the Negrinha cultivar in northeastern Portugal, sold in three commercial styles, two of them brined fermentations and one oxidised to black.

Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Guarda and Bragança districts
Vegetables
Illustrative finished Newfoundland dried salt cod: a split cod side with a pale, salt-crusted surface on a weathered flake board.
Elevated risk

Newfoundland dried salt cod

Atlantic cod split, salted and dried on raised flakes along the Newfoundland and Labrador shore, manufactured ashore for markets across the Atlantic.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
A round golden broa de milho loaf with a deeply cracked crust and dense yellow crumb, sliced on a wooden board.

Broa

This modern home broa de milho uses scalded maize flour and a wheat-flour yeast sponge; it is distinct from Northern Portuguese maize-and-rye sourdough breads.

Portugal · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Roasted bacalhau à lagareiro in a shallow ceramic dish with golden potatoes, onion, garlic and olive oil.
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Bacalhau à lagareiro

Thick pieces of desalted salt cod roasted in olive oil with garlic and onion, served with small potatoes cooked and then crushed until their skins split.

Portugal · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Bacalhau à Brás with cod flakes, fine potato matchsticks and black olives, served on a pale plate.
Elevated risk

Bacalhau à Brás

Lisbon's salt cod dish: shredded desalted cod and fine fried potato matchsticks folded through softened onion and bound with beaten egg, finished with parsley and black olives.

Lisbon · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Plain round bolo do caco breads with browned pan marks on a wooden board beside a cast-iron pan.

Bolo do caco: pan-and-oven version

Sweet-potato wheat breads with fresh yeast, browned in a pan and finished in the oven. This is the bread component of Teleculinária's scrambled-egg dish.

Madeira · Modern method
· Grains and starches