Bifana

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5.0

9 reviews
Excellent
  • Prep Time

    15 mins

  • Cook Time

    15 mins

  • Total Time

    40 mins

  • Servings

    4 people

  • Calories

    396 kcal

  • Course

    Main Course

  • Cuisine

    Portuguese

Bifana

Bifana is a delicious small traditional Portuguese sandwich. It is prepared with papo seco (Portuguese bread roll) and marinated pork cutlets, on which the cooking juices are drizzled.

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Ingredients

Servings
  • 4 sandwich bread rolls (Portuguese papo seco)
  • lb pork cutlets , sliced very thin
  • 5 cloves garlic , chopped
  • 2 oz. lard
  • ½ cup white wine
  • 3 bay leaves
  • Juice of a lemon
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • salt
  • pepper , freshly ground

Instructions

  1. In a container, place a layer of cutlets and season with salt, pepper, bay leaf, paprika, lemon juice and garlic.
  2. If necessary, make several layers with all the cutlets, seasoning them the same way at each layer.
  3. Finally, pour the white wine over the cutlets and marinate for 3 hours in the refrigerator.
  4. In a large frying pan, hear the lard over medium heat.
  5. Drain the cutlets and reserve the marinade. Fry them in lard over high heat, turning them constantly.
  6. Once the cutlets are fried, add the reserved marinade and cook over medium heat until the liquid has evaporated by half.
  7. Toast the bread loaves.
  8. Fill each bread with cutlets and drizzle with the remaining sauce.
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