Porco à Alentejana 🇵🇹
This authentic Porco à Alentejana combines tender marinated pork, fresh clams, crispy potatoes, garlic, white wine, and massa de pimentão. Made in a traditional Portuguese cataplana or any large pot, this classic Portuguese dish is packed with flavour and surprisingly easy to make at home.
Ingredients
- 1 kg pork, cubed I used thick pork chops for this dish but pork shoulder is traditional
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon white pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ tablespoon massa de pimentão
- 1 tablespoon pimenta moída
- 2 bay leaves
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- 1 cup white wine
- ½ juice of lemon
For Dish
- 1 - 1 ¼ kg clams
- 3 medium - large potatoes
- 1 large onion
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- fresh parsley
- lemon wedges
- portuguese pickled veg
Instructions
- Marinate pork with all marinade ingredients for at least 2 hours.
- Soak and clean clams.
- Fry potatoes until golden and crispy.
- Sear pork in batches and set aside.
- Cook onion until softened.
- Add reserved marinade and simmer.
- Return pork to the pot and cook 15 minutes.
- Add clams and cook until opened.
- Stir in potatoes.
- Garnish with parsley, lemon and pickled portuguese veggies.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
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