Local dishes

Main courses of Coimbra

Main courses

A black clay pot of chanfana, goat braised in red wine, from central Portugal

Chanfana

Old goat braised for hours in red wine in a sealed clay pot. From the hill country south of Coimbra, claimed by three towns, and not a city dish.

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Roast suckling pig with crisp crackling being carved in the Bairrada

Leitão da Bairrada

Whole roast suckling pig with glass-thin crackling, from Mealhada in the Bairrada — twenty kilometres north of Coimbra and mostly in another district.

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