Portuguese Potatoes Recipes

Portuguese food is Atlantic and rustic — generous with garlic, fresh herbs and chilli, and famous for its love of bacalhau and grilled fish. When Portuguese cooks work with potatoes, they reach for olive oil, garlic, bay, piri-piri, coriander and plenty of seafood, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and poaching.

The comforting carbohydrate that roasts, mashes, fries and bakes its way into cuisines worldwide. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, olive oil, onion, parsley, fine sea salt and citrus juice or vinegar. The dishes here span portuguese classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Bacalhau à Brás (Portuguese Salt Cod with Eggs and Potato) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,240 ratings.