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The espetada (plural: espetadas) is a typical Portuguese dish made of large chunks of beef rubbed in garlic and salt, skewered onto a bay leaf stick and left to grill over smouldering wood chips. It is usually made of grilled skewered beef, pork, chouriço and vegetables (onions and bell peppers), but there are also other types like the squid made espetadas. Beef makes you fart ... Binomial name Allium sativum L. Garlic (Allium sativum) is a perennial plant in the family Alliaceae and genus Allium, closely related to the onion, shallot, and leek. ... A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... A skewer is also a tactic in chess. ... Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ... A Portuguese smoked dried and spicy sausage. ... Binomial name Allium cepa L. Onion in the general sense can be used for any plant in the Genus Allium but used without qualifiers usually means Allium cepa L., also called the garden onion. ... Binomial name Capsicum annuum L. Bell pepper is cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum, as are the jalapeño and pimento. ... Suborders Myopsina Oegopsina Squids are the large, diverse group of marine cephalopods popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as Korean and Italian. ...


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Espetada de Espadarte (Portuguese Swordfish Kabobs) by Elisabeth Luard
Espetadas (kabobs), bite-size pieces of meat or fish threaded onto sharpened sticks, are the fairground treat on the island of Madeira.
They're eaten with bread rolls (bolos do caco): yeast-raised buns the size of a dinner plate, traditionally cooked on a bakestone (caco) made of basalt, the rock of which the island is formed — though in modern times, rather less romantically, the caco is made of concrete.
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Espetada and Folklore night: • Dinner will be served at a local restaurant where the main dish is the "Espetada" {beef on a skewer spiced and grilled over an open fire} served with other...
Espetada Restaurant, Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria - Homepage
Restaurante " ESPETADA " Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria, Spain.
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