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Description: Dish prepared with chickpeas, various vegetables and various types of meat. Meats and 'soups' (bread) are served separately.
Special characteristics: Bread soaked in broth plays a preponderant role in the recipe.
Region: Alentejo.
Ingredients used: Sausages (farinheira, sausages, black pudding); pig's foot, chispe, ear, bones, pork (or lamb), pork chop, tongue, chickpeas, green beans, onion, tomato, garlic, bay leaf, carrot, potato, pumpkin, bread, mint and salt.
Method of preparation: The day before, soak the grainin waterand salt the meat. The next day, the meats are cookedwith water and mint. The sausages arecooked separately. With the water to cook the meats, 'a minced meat' is made with onion, tomato, garlic and bay leaf. Cut the abóbora, potatoes, green beansand carrots into small pieces. Let it be refined, put everything together and let it cook well. The broth is served over thin bread soupsand mint leavesand the meats are served in a separate container.
Know-how: There are several variations of this dish depending on the regions of Alentejo. Although Cozido de Grão is made from pork, it can also be made with lamb and veal.
Forms of commercialization: Restaurants.
Product availability throughout the year: All year round.
Product history: There is a rural tradition of consumption of this legume, associated with work in the field. When the workers spent the night in the fields, they took clay pots to the work campaign. There was always someone responsible for putting each one's pot [scratch] on the fire.
Representativeness in local food: A dish much appreciated during the winter, as it is caloric.
Source: DGADR, based on the book Receitas e sabores dos territórios rurais (MINHA TERRA – Federação Portuguesa de Associações de Desenvolvimento Local, 2013), Carta Gastronómica do Alentejo - Monumenta Transtaganae Gastronómica (Confraria Gastronómica do Alentejo, 2013) e “Cozinha Tradicional do Alentejo - a memória dos temperos", Maria Antónia Goes, 2014, Colares Editora.
Photo: Provided by MINHA TERRA – Federação Portuguesa de Associações de Desenvolvimento local.
