Empadão Explained

Empadão is a traditional Portuguese dish,^[1] also popular in Brazil. It is a preparation made on an oven that can contain red meat, chicken,^[2] tuna,^[3] codfish^[4] and seafood between layers of mashed potato, rice,^[5] bread^[6] or inside of wheat flour pasta,^[7] although the ground meat-mashed potatoes version is the more traditionally used, similar to the English Shepherd's pie.

The filling consists usually of a refogado of red ground/sliced meat or codfish with onion and garlic. Tomato, mushrooms, sweet corn, green peas and requeijão are also used.^[8] In one recipe, Empadão is made using only pão ralado (ground bread) and eggs as a filling which is then cooked on the oven like a pudding.^[9]

Olives are also used as a topping.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Receitas Culinárias . gastronomias.com . 12 November 2020.
2. Web site: a . petiscos.com . 12 November 2020 .
3. Web site: Empadão de Atum . culinarias.net . 12 November 2020.
4. Web site: Empadão de Bacalhau à Minha Moda . gastronomias.com . 12 November 2020.
5. Web site: f . petiscos.com . 12 November 2020 . 9 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170809204017/http://petiscos.com/receita.php?recid=22263&catid=6 . dead .
6. Web site: d . petiscos.com . 12 November 2020 . 3 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230654/http://www.petiscos.com/receita.php?recid=7124&catid=6 . dead .
7. Web site: Empadão de frango delicioso . tudogostoso.com.br . 12 November 2020.
8. Web site: s . petiscos.com . 12 November 2020 . 24 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924071848/http://www.petiscos.com/receita.php?recid=23095&catid=30 . dead .
9. Web site: v . petiscos.com . 12 November 2020 . 15 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170815103622/http://petiscos.com/receita.php?recid=11354&catid=6 . dead .