Francesinha is a Portuguese sandwich, originally from Porto, made with layers of toasted bread and assorted hot meats such as roast, steak, wet-cured ham, linguiça, or chipolata over which sliced cheese is melted by the ladling of a near-boiling tomato-and-beer sauce called molho de francesinha.

        • dunzOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          This wasn’t served with fries. It might have been unusually large, but I wouldn’t been able to eat a side of fries with this as well lol. Sooo many calories😃. Sucked up most of the delicious sauce by dabbing the bread in it.

    • dunzOPEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I am! Taking it easy today, though, spent all day yesterday walking, finished the day with the Francesinha at one of the tourist traps down by the river

    • dunzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You should! This was great.

    • Yo_Honcho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been alive on this earth for 40 yrs and 2 months and I’ve never seen some so beautiful.

  • JSeldon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Wow! I’m headed to Porto next week and am looking forward to tasting one of these! Any recommendations aside from the Francesinha, any cool places that shouldn’t be missed?! Enjoy your trip!!!

    • curiouscuriosity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ve eaten it and the toast soaking the sauce up always happened. It’s actually part of the appeal as the sauce is magic and each restaurant makes them a bit differently.

  • 1050053@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    tomato-and-beer sauce

    (rant)

    and (smokey) whiskey, and corn starch, onions, garlic, and a choice of chicken / beef / shellfish stock… and (piri-piri) hot sauce (optional, if you’re mid)…

    I don’t know if OP just did a short-hand of the sauce, but I was in a restaurant (this was not in Porto…) where the owner classified it as a “tomato-and-beer sauce” and indeed it was… a vegetable soup, and it wasn’t pleasant at all.

    The sauce is the most important thing in the Francesinha. Anyone can do a fry-up and stick it between two slices of bread and top it with cheese.

    There’s a good Francesinha sauce recipe in the Thermomix/Bimby database; that can be anyone’s baseline. (/rant)

    That Francesinha looks great, I wish I could find a decent place in my town to eat one.