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CARNE DE PORCO ALENTEJANO - DOP

Very succulent, fine-grained meat obtained from Alentejana breed pigs, slaughtered between 8 and 14 months old, registered in the Birth Book and children of father and mother registered in the Portuguese Herd Book of Pigs – Alentejo breed section. The color varies from pale pink to dark pink, depending on the animal's age, with shiny, firm, non-exudative fat, although sometimes excessive on the surface of the carcasses and white in color. Extraordinarily tasty meat, resulting from the animal's diet based on acorns and grass, freely grazed in the cork oak and holm oak forests of the Alentejo and surrounding regions.
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COVILHETE OF VILA REAL

Covilhete of Vila Real is a meat pastry, weighing approximately 50g to 60g, filled with a mince made mostly from stewed beef. The covilhete has a truncated cone shape made with puff pastry, which is topped with puff pastry with the characteristic helical curl of this product. The pastry is crispy and crunchy, and the filling is soft and grainy, where you can see the pieces of minced meat that may be bound by a slightly thick cream resulting from the mixture of fats and flour. The smell of the puff pastry contrasts slightly with the aromas of the filling. Its flavor comes from the mixture of the puff pastry and the filling, where the characteristic flavors of garlic and onion, fat and meat, with a light touch of parsley.
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