There is no better way of paying homage to the extraordinary flavours of Portuguese gastronomy than by gathering family and friends together round the table to share a typical Portuguese meal prepared with selected ingredients. Chef Henrique Sá Pessoa offers his suggestion for a masterly starter.
It was in the north, in the bygone times of the ninth century, that the country which we now know as Portugal began to take shape. At that time it was a condado (countship) which even in those early days longed for independence and struggled to break free from the neighbouring kingdom of Galicia.
