Pousada de Belmonte - Convento de Belmonte

Gastronomy

(www.conventodebelmonte.pt)

Sugestões do Chef Valdir Lubave:

• Mushroom Cappuccino with Foam made of aromatic herbs from the Cloister's garden
•  Spinach puff-paste spicy sausage from Guarda, with young broad beans stew and Serrano smoked ham
• Tranche of roasted turbot with pureed young vegetables and dried tomatoes and capers provençale
• Wild boar "Fria Humberto", coated with crumbs of corn bread and rosemary, thyme and parseley, sauce of sweet garlic and olive oil confit
• Guava Soufflé with sheep cream cheese mousseline sauce of Serra da Estrela

Weekends at lunch ....

• SATURDAY - Codfish Buffet 

• SUNDAY - Portuguese Cozido Buffet (boiled beef and pork with  vegetables, sausages and rice)

Typical regional dishes:

• Scrambled eggs with spicy sausage
• Grilled codfish in olive oil from the Cabrais oil-press
• Kid stew with Caria bread
• Local egg pudding

Mushroom Festival (October, November and December)

The menus include several dishes, of an excellent cooking technique that revolves around the Wild Mushroom: first course from a mushroom Capuccino with foam made of aromatic herbs from the Cloister’s garden to a mushrooms Risotto, not to mention the fresh roasted cod fish with cantharelus cibareos stew or Veel thin steak with morchella sculenta cream. To finish, thin slices of fresh pinapple with mushroom and nutmeg ice-cream and Porcini liqueur or wild mushrooms and spices brandy, all prepared especially for you.