CONCURSOS NACIONAIS PRODUTOS TRADICIONAIS
National competitions for traditional Portuguese products are already recognized as a relevant event for the promotion of excellence and quality.
National competitions for traditional Portuguese products are already recognized as a relevant event for the promotion of excellence and quality.
Sweet of conventual origin, whose dough is obtained from the combination of water and flour and whose creamy filling results from the mixture of yolk and egg with sugar syrup. It comes in the form of a stick or half-moon, or miniatures, sprinkled or not with powdered or granulated sugar and cinnamon (this is only used in the half-moon shape). The puff pastry is thin, almost transparent, golden brown in color, with darker ridges. The filling is brownish-yellow, has a flavor of egg, sugar and cinnamon and melts in the mouth.
Yeast dough pastry, round in shape with hole in the center, topped with coffee frosting and spots of white frosting.
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The Ovos Moles de Aveiro has a complex aroma (the egg yolk aroma evolves into a characteristic smell that includes aromas as diverse as caramel, cinnamon and nuts, resulting from the chemical reactions that take place during cooking between the sugar and the compounds in the egg yolk). Its taste is sweet, with the flavors of egg yolk and sugar being modulated by cooking.
Slices of pão de ló drizzled with sugar and then covered with egg candy and cinnamon. It has a velvety texture with a smooth consistency and a sweet and aromatic cinnamon flavor.
"Borrego Serra da Estrela" are refrigerated carcasses, obtained from animals of the Bordaleira Serra da Estrela breed, children of father and mother listed in the breed's herd book. Animal slaughter is done up to 30 days of age, with one weight live up to 12 kg. It is a particularly tender and flavorful meat, with a very smooth taste, with well-distributed interstitial and subcutaneous fat.
Marmelada tradicional enriquecida com physalis.
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Covilhete of Vila Real is a meat pastry, weighing approximately 50g to 60g, filled with a mince made mostly from stewed beef. The covilhete has a truncated cone shape made with puff pastry, which is topped with puff pastry with the characteristic helical curl of this product. The pastry is crispy and crunchy, and the filling is soft and grainy, where you can see the pieces of minced meat that may be bound by a slightly thick cream resulting from the mixture of fats and flour. The smell of the puff pastry contrasts slightly with the aromas of the filling. Its flavor comes from the mixture of the puff pastry and the filling, where the characteristic flavors of garlic and onion, fat and meat, with a light touch of parsley.