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<\/div>\n They are small Cod fish cakes, a deep-fried dough made of shredded cod, potatoes, eggs, onions and parsley. It can be served warm with tomato rice or by itself as an appetizer. If you are in Oporto don\u2019t be disappointed! You have a typical dish called \u2018Francesinha\u2019, an amazing sandwich considered one of Oporto’s ex-libris. Imagine a bread stuffed with ham, sausage and steak, topped with melted cheese and dipped in a spicy sauce made from tomato, beer and piripiri. To top it off, a fried egg and chips on the side. Portugal Premium Tours team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feel like a local and taste the most popular tidbits of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10210,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions\/10210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAccording to the records, these Cod fish cakes were mentioned for the first time in 1904 in a cookbook of a Portuguese army officer. Since then it became one of the most popular recipes with Cod in Portugal. In Lisbon you can find the ‘Past\u00e9is de Bacalhau’ everywhere!
\nJoin us on our food tour Tasting Lisbon on foot<\/a> and taste the best \u2018Pastel de Bacalhau\u2019 in town with a glass of Port white wine and feel like a true local. <\/p>\n
\nBut after all what is a Francesinha and why is it so special?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.premiumtours.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Francesinha-300x178.jpg\")
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\nThe story goes that who invented this sandwich gave it the name “Francesinha” because he thought the french woman to be very spicy.
\nWe can taste this typical dish, in restaurants all over the city but all of them have its own recipe. The difference lays in the sauce that can be more or less spicy and in the filling. In each restaurant you\u2019ll have a different experience.
\nThe best part is that we know which restaurant is known to cook the best ‘Francesinha’ in the city.
\nJoin us on our new food tour Tasting Oporto on foot<\/a> and discover this and other typical dishes that will make you want to move to Oporto.<\/p>\n