Farinheira
This smoked Portuguese sausage borrows its name from flour (farina), which is its main component alongside meat and various seasonings such as wine, garlic, bay leaf, and paprika. Though it is nowadays mostly prepared with pork meat and pork trimmings, it is believed that the original farinheira did not contain any pork, since it has been widely accepted that it was created by Portuguese Jews.
Farinheira is typically employed in many traditional dishes such as the hearty cozido stew, but it can also be boiled, grilled and fried, or combined with scrambled eggs.
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