Açorda à alentejana — garlic-and-coriander bread soup with a poached egg
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Açorda à Alentejana — Garlic & Coriander Bread Soup

Poverty food turned classic: a pounded paste of garlic, coriander and olive oil, drowned in boiling water, poured over stale bread and topped with a poached egg. Almost nothing in the cupboard becomes a bowl of real comfort.

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Resipi oleh Alentejo kitchens · 🏺 Tradisional · The wide wheat-and-cork plains of the south-central Alentejo — bread, garlic, coriander and olive oil cooking of great thrift

Portuguese (Alentejo) · traditional dishAn ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article describes açorda's origin as a poverty food made to use up leftover bread that became a classic of Portuguese and especially Alentejan cuisine (açorda à Alentejana), and confirms the defining ingredients — stale bread with garlic, cilantro/coriander, poached eggs, olive oil and vinegar mashed to a coarse paste. It does NOT mention the widely-repeated Arabic etymology, which is therefore flagged in the tips as unsourced background rather than asserted as fact. Quantities and method here are this book's own.

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25 min🍽 4 hidangan🔥 340 kcal🇵🇹 Portugal
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  1. Pound the garlic, most of the coriander and a good pinch of salt to a rough green paste in a mortar (or blitz briefly). Work in 3 tablespoons of the olive oil until it looks like a loose pesto.

    💡 The garlic and coriander are raw — this paste is the whole flavour of the açorda, so taste it and get the salt right before any water goes in.

  2. Put the coriander paste in a large bowl or tureen. Pour the boiling water over it, whisking, so the raw garlic and herb steep into the hot liquid. Taste and adjust the salt.

  3. Poach the eggs: slide them one at a time into a pan of barely simmering water and cook 3 minutes, until the white is set but the yolk stays runny.

    💡 Some cooks crack the eggs straight into the hot açorda liquid to poach them there — that works too and flavours the broth, but a separate pan is easier to control.

  4. Put the torn stale bread into four bowls. Ladle the hot green broth over it and let it sit for a minute so the bread softens and swells but still holds some texture.

  5. Slide a poached egg onto each bowl, scatter the last of the coriander, and finish with a thread of the remaining olive oil. Eat straight away, breaking the yolk through the bread.

💡 Petua

  • How much water you add decides the dish: less and it is a thick, spoonable bread porridge; more and it is a brothy soup. The Alentejo version is usually on the thick side — start with less and loosen to taste.
  • The word açorda is widely said to come from an Arabic root (ath-thurda, a bread sop), a trace of eight centuries of Moorish al-Andalus in Iberia — but the cited Wikipedia article does NOT confirm that etymology, so it is offered here only as commonly-held background, not as sourced fact.

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