Portuguese Tuna Rice Bake is simple to make and delicious to eat. It’s unusual flavour comes from the addition of Piri-piri sauce.
Serves 2
Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: **
Origin: Portugal
Good with: green vegetables
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Piri-piri
Piri-piri: this sauce of Portuguese origin gets its name from a type of chilli grown in Africa. It is actually of frutescens species (which is the species used to make Tabasco sauce.) I find any mild red chilli an acceptable substitute (piri-piri chillies are anything but mild!)
The sauce is absolutely delicious and can be stirred into all sorts of savoury recipes. Below I give a couple of suggestions.
Serves lots
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: **
Origin: Portugal
Good in: Portuguese Tuna Rice Bake, French Toast
Holiday 2016: Faro and Ria Formosa Portugal
We have just returned from summer holiday: this year 10 fantastic days in the Algarve. This was my first time in Portugal,
but am guessing it will not be my last. We stayed in Faro; we hired a flat on the 10th floor with views over Faro at the back and fantastic views of the Ria Formosa at the front.
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