Duarte Eira
Chef Dishes
Pink Prawn Rice
The menu at Almeja is all about “life experiences, travels and memories” and it‘s written with seasonal ingredients available at the market. This Pink Prawn Rice, Fennel and Aioli is one of the staples on the menu. You can even smell it just by looking at it … Hmmm!
Fish Stew Pasta
Monkfish, shrimp, pasta, seaweed and coriander… or the sea on a plate. With this Fish Stew Pasta recipe, Chef Duarte Eira shows us that it is in the simple things that we find the greatness of Portuguese cuisine.
Products used
Monkfish
It is twice as delicious as it is ugly: you can count on our gourmand word for that!
Monkfish is perhaps one of the ugliest fishes you can find at the market, but it is also one of the most nutritious, tasty and versatile. A bottom feeder fish, it is a cunning hunter that uses a kind of antenna, part of its skeleton, as bait to attract prey directly to its mouth. It is found all along the coast and is one of the most gastronomic fishes in the Portuguese sea. Two curiosities: for a long time, monkfish pancreas was one of the first sources of processed insulin, which was fundamental to treat type 2 diabetes; “sea demon” is one of its many nicknames, which is particularly interesting on Halloween week!
Regions
Center
The centre of Portugal is proof that virtue (or, in this case, the virtues) is in the middle. From the highest mountain in mainland Portugal to the world’s biggest waves, there is a little bit of everything, without forgetting priceless monumental and human heritage. Schist villages, castles that look like they have emerged from fairy tales, one of the oldest universities in Europe, and even a Portuguese-style Venice.
