Five self-service restaurants also offer traditional Portuguese dishes at modest prices ($10 to $15 a person for a main dish, desert and soda).

The chef has learnt a handful of Portuguese dishes from a local Diu matriarch.

Linguiça is also used in Francesinha, a traditional Portuguese dish, from Porto.

The whole is suffused with olive oil, as are so many Portuguese dishes.

Excellent Portuguese dishes, including garlic clams with pasta, and seafood kebabs.

Imported dried cod (bacalhao) is the Portuguese national dish; several varieties are available, usually baked.

Another traditional Portuguese dish known as cabidela is also made by cooking chicken or rabbit in its own blood, sometimes diluted with vinegar.

In Brazil, the traditional Portuguese dish known as cabidela (see above) is also eaten.

In recent years, there has also been increasing interest in the wider range of Portuguese dishes based on dried and salted cod, however.