Salt cod with green cabbage and potatoes is traditionally eaten for Christmas Eve supper in Portugal instead of meat dishes. Other common fish dishes include octopus. For dessert, a King cake is placed in the center of the table, shaped like a crown and filled with dried fruits. It traditionally contains a broad bean and small gift; finding the bean means paying for next year's cake. Other popular Portuguese Christmas desserts include rice pudding, fried bread called "Rabanadas", dough balls called "Filhoses" deep fried and coated in cinnamon sugar, and "Christmas dreams", an orange flavored fried yeast dough dusted with powdered sugar. On Christmas day, roast turkey is typically served for lunch.

1. CHRISTMAS DISHES
PORTUGAL

2. Salt cod with green cabbage and potatoes
Traditionally, the Christmas Eve supper consists of abstaining from meat
dishes. The traditional fish, is ”Bacalhau(salted cod), but other regions
eat Polvo (Octopus), or another fish.
Work done by Tiago Adónis and Miguel Vilão
5th grade ºE

3. Ocotopus
Octopus is another typical Christmas dish.
Work done by Tiago Adónis and Miguel Vilão
5th grade ºE

4. Christmas desserts
King cake is placed in the center of the table. This cake is made in the shape of a
crown, filled and decorated with dry and crystallized fruits.
Traditionally a broad bean and a gift (a little token) are hidden in the cake.
If you get the token you are allowed to keep it. But if you find the broad bean, you
have to pay for next year's “Bolo Rei”!
Christmas cake: King Cake

5. Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake with strawberries
Christmas desserts

6. Christmas desserts
Work done by Maria Alves and Leonor Martins 5th grade
Sweet rice puddingChocolate cake called Christmas trunk
Fried bread
slices like
french toast
“Rabanadas”

7. “Filhoses”
Work done by Diana Matos, 5th grade
Christmas desserts
“Filhoses” are usually made by forming balls
from a mixture of flour, egg, and pumkin (paste
or dough), which is optional. When the dough
has risen, the balls are deep fried deep and
sprinkled with a mixture of sugar and
cinnamon.
They are eaten cold and they are very sweet
and delicious

8. The Portuguese choux pastry
Christmas dreams.
A popular Christmas dessert are
Christmas dreams.
They are an orange flavoured
fried yeast dough, powdered with
icing sugar.
Work done by Filipa Gonçalves and Rita Costa (5ºE)
Christmas desserts
“Coscorões” are a very typical
Portuguese dessert during the
Christmas season.
They are sweet and crunchy fried
dough pieces with a nice orange flavor
and a nice cinnamon finish.

9. Christmas day: Lunch
Roast turkey

10. The End