Chouriço à bombeiro: flambéed sausage tableside
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Origin
Portugal
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Description
One of Portugal's most theatrical restaurant preparations — a chouriço is placed in a traditional clay sausage cooker (assador de chouriço), doused in aguardente (Portuguese grape spirit), and set alight at the table. The spirit burns for 60-90 seconds, the chouriço sizzles and crisps in the residual heat of the clay dish, and the fat that renders out flavours the bread that must be served alongside. The bombeiro (fireman) reference is to the flames — a tableside preparation that combines spectacle with simplicity. The clay assador retains heat and continues cooking the sausage after the flames die, ensuring even heating without a second burner.
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