Food in Portugal

1. Food in Portugal

2. Breakfast • Portuguese breakfasts often consist of fresh bread, with butter, cheese or fruit preserves accompanied with strong coffee or milk. Sweet pastries are also very popular, as well as breakfast cereals eaten cold and mixed with milk or yogurt and fruit.

3. Lunch • Portuguese lunch consists of a warm meal. This warm meal is the same as a usual dutch dinner meal.

4. Dinner • A Portuguese dinner is almost always accompanied with rice. Portugese dinners are also very late, for example, we eat at 6 o´clock in the evening, and here you eat at 9 o´clock in the evening.

5. Fish • In Portugal people eat a lot of fish, especially cod, in Portuguese known as bacalhau. • Fish is served grilled, boiled, fried or deep-fried, stewed or even roasted.

6. Rice • In Portugal almost every meal is served with rice. Rice is a very important kind of food for the whole wide world • In Portugal people eat it a lot, but in the Netherlands we don´t eat it often

7. Desserts • The Portuguese enjoy rich egg-based desserts. These are often seasoned with spices such as cinnamon and vanilla. Perhaps most popular is leite-creme .Also popular is arroz doze. These are often decorated with elaborate stencilled patterns of cinnamon powder

8. Pastries • Cakes and pastries are also very popular. Most towns have a local speciality, usually egg or cream based pastry • Originally from Lisbon, but popular nationwide, as well as among the diaspora, are pastéis de nata. These are small, extremely rich custard tarts. Other very popular pastries found in cafes, bakeries and pastry shops across the entire territory