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Praia de Ribeira de'Ilhas (Ericeira)

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Vila Nova de Gaia

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Pasteis de Bacalhau

(for 18 croquettes)

Ingredients:

125g soaked bacalhau* ca 125kcal

250g potatoes ca 250kcal

1 onion ca 30kcal

3 eggs ca 234kcal

parsley

1 tablespoon of olive oil to fry onion and bacalhau ca 100kcal

oil for frying (1-1,5 cup) 2210-3315kcal

salt, pepper

the mass have 1844/2397kcal, one croquettes - 102/133kcal

Preparation:

* Soak the bacalhau for 2 hours (more or less - it depends on the kind of bacalhau) and then drain.

Boil jacked potatoes , cool them, peel and mash to purée.

Fry onion in olive oil, add shredded bacalhau and fry for a few minutes.

Mix mashed potatoes with onion, bacalhau and well beaten eggs. Add the chopped parsley, season with salt and pepper. (Salt carefully because bacalhau is naturally salty!).

Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and fry small portions of the mass using two tablespoons.

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Sonhos (Dreams)

2 glasses of water

50 g of butter

200 g of wheat flour

oil for frying

5 eggs

zest of 1 lemon

salt

powdered sugar

cinnamon

Pour water into a saucepan, add the butter, lemon zest and a pinch of salt. Bring to boil, remove the zest and add the flour. Stir with a wooden spoon until the dough forms a kind of a ball. Set aside from the heat and cool the dough a little. Add eggs one by one.

Fry in deep oil at 150 ° C, putting portions of dough with 2 teaspoons. Do not put too many, because during the frying they swell and need place to turn around.

Put on a paper towel to remove absorbed oil and then sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Serve immediately.

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Pasteis de Nata

Ingredients:

1 package of ready-made puff pastry (275g) 1025 kcal

zest of one half of a lemon

1 stick of cinnamon 5kcal

250 ml milk 145kcal

3 egg yolks 180kcal

100 g of sugar 400kcal

25 g maizena (cornstarch) 100kcal

1,855 calories, with 16 cookies, 1 = 116 kcal

Preparation:

Heat slowly 150 ml of milk with zest of lemon and cinnamon until it boils. Put out the zest and the cinnamon. Mix maizena with the rest of cold milk. Put the sugar into 50 ml of water and boil it. Pour the syrup into the milk, put it on the fire and then add the maizena with milk. Still stirring, bring to boil. When the mass thickens remove it from the heat. Whip egg yolks, add to the mixture.

Roll the puff pastry and cut into 2 cm thick slices. Arrange the puff pastry in greased bun tins and pour the mixture of milk, maizena and yolks. Bake 10-15 minutes at 240 ° C. Sprinkle with cinnamon and powered sugar. Serve hot or cold.

NOTE:

The lemon zest shouldn’t be grated. It must be a piece of peel!

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8 slices mozzarella mini

8 small strawberries

80 ml olive oil with basil

Prepare the basil olive oil: blend 20 fresh basil leaves with olive oil and salt.

Slice the mozzarella and strawberries. Put them alternately on the shashliks sticks. Finish with a slice of strawberry and basil leaf. Pour on the shashliks olive oil with basil and serve immediately .

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