# The best traditional Portuguese dishes

The dishes of Portuguese cuisine that repeat most in lists of typical food, with salt cod in several versions (they say there are a thousand recipes).

- 7 votes · 24 items
- Jan 15, 2026 · Rui Carvalho Mendes
- https://even.best/en/l/191/the-best-traditional-portuguese-dishes

## Top 15

1. **Bacalhau à Brás** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Shredded salt cod with matchstick potatoes, onion and scrambled egg, with olives and parsley.
2. **Caldo verde** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Potato soup with finely shredded kale and a slice of chouriço.
3. **Grilled sardines** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sardines over charcoal on cornbread, the queens of June's Popular Saints festivals.
4. **Arroz de pato** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Oven-baked rice with shredded duck and chouriço slices, from Braga.
5. **Arroz de marisco** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Soupy rice with mixed seafood.
6. **Bacalhau com natas** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Shredded salt cod with potato and cream, baked.
7. **Francesinha** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Porto sandwich with steak, sausage and ham, covered in cheese and a spicy beer sauce.
8. **Cozido à portuguesa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Meats, sausages and vegetables boiled together, the symbol of the family table.
9. **Polvo à lagareiro** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Roast octopus with punched potatoes and lots of garlic olive oil.
10. **Carne de porco à alentejana** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marinated pork with clams and fried potatoes, surf and turf.
11. **Leitão da Bairrada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Suckling pig roasted in a wood oven with crackling skin, from Mealhada.
12. **Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salt cod with potato, onion, egg and olives, a Porto recipe.
13. **Tripas à moda do Porto** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tripe and bean stew that gave Porto people the nickname 'tripeiros'.
14. **Bifana** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sandwich of pork marinated in garlic and wine; the one from Vendas Novas is famous.
15. **Alheira de Mirandela** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poultry and bread sausage invented by New Christians, fried with egg and chips.
16. **Cataplana de marisco** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Seafood cooked in a copper cataplana, typical of the Algarve.
17. **Alentejo Açorda** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alentejo bread soup with garlic, coriander, olive oil and poached egg.
18. **Piri-piri chicken** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grilled chicken with chilli sauce, famous in Guia, in the Algarve.
19. **Roasted goat** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Oven-roasted goat with potatoes, a festive dish in Minho and Beiras.
20. **Chanfana** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Old goat meat slowly cooked in red wine in a clay pot, typical of Beira Litoral.
21. **Cod with everyone** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cod cooked with potatoes, cabbage, egg and grains, drizzled with olive oil and garlic; traditional in the consonant.
22. **Fish stew** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stew of various fish with potatoes, tomatoes and peppers, typical of fishing areas.
23. **stone soup** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bean soup with sausages and meat from Almeirim, with the legendary stone on the plate.
24. **Trás-os-Montes Feijoada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Red bean feijoada with meat and pork sausages from Trás-os-Montes.

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