Duck and chourico baked rice: a whole duck braised and shredded, cooked into rice with its broth, finished in the oven with a crust of chourico slices and a beaten egg glaze.

Arroz de pato is one of the great rice dishes of the Portuguese table, and Braga's version at Casa de Pasto das Carvalheiras is the benchmark preparation in the city. The dish requires a whole duck braised for several hours, a step that most restaurants skip in favour of duck confit; the Carvalheiras kitchen makes it from scratch on a rotating weekly basis. The combination of long-braised duck, salty chourico and egg-glazed rice crust is a product of the Minho farmhouse tradition of using the Sunday duck for multiple meals.

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