Linguiça

Linguiça for sale in Espirito Santo, Brazil

Linguiça (Portuguese pronunciation: [lĩˈɡwisɐ]) is a form of Portuguese smoke cured pork sausage seasoned with garlic and paprika.

Outside of Portugal, Azores and Brazil, linguiça is also popular in Goa (once a Portuguese colony in India), Southeastern Massachusetts, Massachusetts' North Shore, California, Seattle, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Okinawa, where it is often simply called "Portagee sausage, a negative ethnic slang term."^{[citation needed]} It is typically sliced before being braised or grilled. In Hawaii, McDonald's restaurants serve breakfasts featuring Portuguese sausage, Hawaiian Portagee Sausage is usually smoked using Banana leaves .

Linguiça, like many other sausages, is generally served as part of a heavy meal, typically accompanied by rice, beans, and other pork products. Feijoada, for example, is a traditional Portuguese dish, also common in Brazil and Angola, that incorporates linguiça with beans, ham hocks, and other foods.

Linguiça is also used in Francesinha, a traditional Portuguese dish, from Porto. It can be incorporated in its sauce, giving it a distinct flavor.

Linguiça is a popular dish in Mangalore among the Catholic community there, It is more spicy than its original, and is more related to the Goan chorizo. Linguiça has a strong flavor of red chillies, peppercorns, turmeric, and salt. It is typically prepared by half frying onions, and adding sugar and vinegar to the meat, and cooking over a low flame, preferably wood fire.

External links

• Portuguese cooking at the Open Directory Project