Migas à Alentejana

Name: Migas à Alentejana
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: 400g stale bread, torn into pieces; 200g chouriço, sliced; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 3 tbsp lard or olive oil; 200ml warm water; salt to taste; coriander to serve

Alentejo bread-based crumbs fried in pork fat with garlic and chouriço — a rustic side dish of extraordinary flavour.

Total time

30 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Portuguese

Ingredients

400gstale bread, torn into pieces

200gchouriço, sliced

4 clovesgarlic, minced

3 tbsplard or olive oil

200mlwarm water

saltto taste

corianderto serve

Instructions

Soak bread in warm water until soft. Squeeze lightly.

Fry chouriço in lard until beginning to crisp. Remove.

Fry garlic in the same fat. Add soaked bread.

Fry stirring and pressing, breaking into rough crumbs, 10 minutes until some parts are crispy.

Stir in chouriço. Serve with coriander alongside pork or as a side.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

0.2g

Fat

Carbs

Fiber

0.1g

Sodium

1mg

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