Rojões also known as ''rojões à moda do Minho'' is a typical fried pork dish of
Portuguese cuisine
Portuguese cuisine () consists of the traditions and practices of cooking in Portugal. The oldest known book on Portuguese cuisine, entitled ''Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria de Portugal'', from the 16th century, describes many popular dish ...
, in particular, of the
Minho Province
Minho () was a former province in Portugal, established in 1936 and dissolved in 1976. It consisted of 23 municipalities, with its capital in the city of Braga. Today, the area would include the districts of Braga and Viana do Castelo. Minho ha ...
in the wider
Norte region of northern Portugal but with several regional variants across the country. Rojões is also the name for boneless pieces of pork meat, but with some fat (for example, from the leg). In the North of Portugal, rojões are pork cuts from the leg, shoulder or belly, fried in
lard
Lard is a Quasi-solid, semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering (animal products), rendering the adipose tissue, fatty tissue of a domestic pig, pig. in a pan, preferably made of iron, which is a typical regional dish well-known across the entire country and easily found also in almost all parts of Portugal. There are variants like those from
Bairrada
Bairrada is a Portuguese wine region located in the Beira Litoral Province. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a '' Denominação de Origem Controlada'' (DOC), and its popularity has surged over the last years. It is small an ...
(''rojões da Bairrada''),
Porto
Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...
(''rojões à moda do Porto'') and Minho Province (''rojões à minhota'' or ''rojões à moda do Minho''). The nationally-famous
carne de porco à alentejana Carne or Carné is a surname (occasionally a given name), and may refer to
''Given name''
* Carne Ross, British diplomat
''Surname''
* Sir Edward Carne (c.1500–61), Welsh scholar, diplomat, English M.P.
* Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne (1817†...
, which always has clams as an ingredient and is named after the region of
Alentejo
Alentejo ( , , ) is a geographical, historical, and cultural region of south–central and southern Portugal. In Portuguese, its name means "beyond the Tagus" ().
Alentejo includes the regions of Alto Alentejo Province, Alto Alentejo and Bai ...
, is indeed a dish of rojões with clams, also called ''rojões
e porcoà Alentejana'', with or without clams.
[Rojões de porco à Alentejana (Associação de Cozinheiros Profissionais de Portugal) https://www.acpp.pt/acervo-mlm-alentejo/141-carnes/2866-rojoes-de-porco-a-alentejana]
References
Minho cuisine
Pork dishes
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