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Fish Restaurant in Aguda

In Aguda, a fisher village just south of  Vila Nova de Gaia, the Zizi restaurant has been there for 40 years serving mostly fish and seafood.  A traditional heaven for a set clientele, the restaurant still gives you the feel of the eighties of past century, with simple decorations. The old restaurant lays in front of the ocean bearing an esplanade in the summer on the sand side.

But then again what matters here is the food. The immense menu starts with the daily suggestions (and those are the ones that count) comprises mostly fish. Try the sapateira recheada com caril (a big crab stuffed with curry) , drink a Alvarinho Dorado or Soalheiro if they have and enjoy the view.

Recipe of Francesinha

Want to try it at home? Here’s a recipe (one of many!) for 1 sandwiche

Ingredients:
For the sauce
* 2 large onions, coarsely chopped
* 2 garlic chopped
* olive oil – about 2 cl
* 2 cl of meat broth (knorr or similar diluted in the water will do)
* 2 laurel leaves
* 1 beer
* 1 cl whisky/ brandy/Port
* 2 cl tomato paste
* Piri piri hot sauce/tabasco/ or chillies (depends on how hot you like it)
* salt and ground pepper to taste
* 2 tablespoons flour/cornstarch ( if the sauce is to liquid)
For the sandwiches:
* 2 slices of ham,
* 2 slices mortadella
* 2 fried fresh sausages
* 1 fried steaks
* 2 slices of bread
* 4 slices of cheese (edam, gouda, not too strong in taste but easily melting )

Heat up a little bit of olive oil with chopped onions and garlic. When they are golden add tomato pulp and laurel leaves, beer, the piri-piri or chili pepper (chopped for extra spicyness), meat broth. Let it simmer for a little while and add the beer, and the whisky or brandy.Take the laurel leaves and puree all the sauce and if it is still too liquid add a bit of cornstarch to make it thicker. that’s where you could add the floor (or cornstarch) to make it thicker. Make sure it is good of salt and pepper, and there you are one possible sauce recipe. I fact you can (and should) develop it to meet you taste (add more spiciness or take it away). Add a bit of fish soup, to give it a richer taste…

The sandwich:
Put on top of one slice of bread the fried steak (hot, not cold!) the sausages cut in the middle and hot, the ham slices, the mortadella and a slice of cheese. Cover with the other bread slice and caver it all with the cheese. Take the sandwich to the oven to melt the cheese and pour the hot sauce over it. If the cheese is a good melty type then it maybe enough just to pour the hot sauce and it’ll melt underneath.

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