Main course

Francesinha

Porto’s hot sandwich of steak, ham, and linguiça under melted cheese and a rich, piquant beer-and-tomato sauce.

What you’ll need

• white bread: 8 slices
• beef steaks: 400 g
• ham: 200 g
• linguiça sausage: 250 g
• cheese: 400 g
• beer: 500 ml
• tomatoes: 400 g
• beef stock: 400 ml
• yellow onion: 160 g
• garlic: 15 g
• butter: 35 g
• port wine: 60 ml
• Worcestershire sauce: 30 ml
• cornstarch: 15 g
• cold water: 30 ml
• fine salt: 7 g
• black pepper: 3 g

How to make it

1. For the sauce, melt the butter, cook the finely diced onion for 7 minutes and the garlic for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, beer, stock, port, and Worcestershire sauce and simmer uncovered for 25 minutes.

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