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title: "Francesinha"
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date: 2021-03-21
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tags: ['portuguese', 'beef']
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author: artur-mancha
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---
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Francesinha is a traditional dish from the city of Porto. The francesinha in its special sandwich variation consists of linguiça, ham, cold meat and beef steak, covered with melted cheese.
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## Ingredients
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### Based Ingredients
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- bread
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- linguiça (type of Portuguese sausage)
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- ham
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- Portuguese cheese
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- beef meat
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### Sauce Ingredients
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- blonde beer
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- fried tomato sauce
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- port wine
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- beef broth
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- salted butter
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- onion
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- minced garlic
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- cornstarch
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- olive oil
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- piripiri (Portuguese chili)
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## Directions
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### Directions for the sauce
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1. In a big saucepan, heat the olive oil and add the garlic and the onions. Cook them until golden.
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2. Pour the beer and simmer until the alcohol evaporates. It's around 5 minutes.
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3. Pour the beef broth, the fried tomato sauce, the port wine, the Piripiri and the butter to give shine to the sauce. Add the cornstarch slowly avoiding lumps. Simmer for a couple of minutes until the sauce looks thick.
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### Directions for the Francesinhas
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1. Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F)
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2. Cook the beef chopped in small strings. Season with salt and black pepper.
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3. Cook the linguiças sliced in half lengthwise.
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4. Take 4 slices of bread for each Francesinha. Cut the center of two slices to make room for the filling. The other two will be the bottom and top of the francesinhas.
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5. Fill the bread with the sausages, the beef and the ham roughly chopped. Cover the francesinhas with the cheese and melt in the oven for 5 minutes.
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6. Cover with the sauce and serve with french fries.
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