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A cataplana is both a dish and the traditional hinged pot it’s cooked in—an Algarve emblem built for trapping steam and concentrating flavor. In practice, it’s a flexible template: tomatoes, onions, garlic, white wine, herbs, and whatever the coast delivers that day.

One-pot seafood-and-pork stews from Portugal’s south

A cataplana is both a dish and the traditional hinged pot it’s cooked in—an Algarve emblem built for trapping steam and concentrating flavor. In practice, it’s a flexible template: tomatoes, onions, garlic, white wine, herbs, and whatever the coast delivers that day.