Helena's Recipes

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Helena’s Recipes

Welcome to Helena’s Recipes – a food blog for gourmet recipes with Mediterranean and Portuguese flavors that you can make at home in under 1 hour. Sign up to my gourmet emails with new recipes, live cooking stream recordings and flavorful stories, and check out my live cooking videos where you can watch me cook in real time, ask questions or cook with me. Scroll down to start and enjoy gourmet meals from the comfort of your own home. ~ Love, Helena.

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Crispy golden fried octopus pieces on a plate.

Portuguese Fried Octopus

Helena is holding a big spoon with black eyed peas over the bowl with juicy salad.

Portuguese Black-Eyed Pea Salad

Helena is holding a fork with Portuguese Mixed Salad Salada Mista over the big white plate.

Portuguese Mixed Salad (Salada Mista)

Helena is holding a tray of ready baked Mediterranean Scorpionfish with onions and lemon.

Mediterranean Baked Scorpionfish

A closeup of Watercress Tomato Salad on a plate with wine

Watercress Burrata Tomato Salad

Helena is having one razor clam in tomato sauce in two hands

Razor Clams in Tomato Sauce

Helena is holding a beautifully cooked razor clam in left hand and drizzling lemon juice on top

Portuguese Razor Clams in Wine Sauce

Helena is holding one cracker with sardine pate on top and a spoon full of sardine pate

Portuguese Sardine Pate

Seafood Recipes

My favorite gourmet recipes with seafood that make me feel like eating the sea. See all of my seafood recipes.

Octopus Salad

Portuguese Octopus Salad

Grape Shrimp Tartare on a plate

Grape Shrimp Tartare

Shrimp Lettuce Wraps

Shrimp Lettuce Wraps

Shrimp Salad in a bowl.

Super Awesome Shrimp Salad

Ready baked octopus served with potatoes

Portuguese Octopus in Port Wine

A closeup of Shrimp Croquettes on a plate.

Mediterranean Shrimp Croquettes

Meat Recipes

Cooking gourmet meals with beef, pork and duck with Mediterranean flavors. All of meat recipes are here.

Meat roulette made quick and easy

Meat Roulette

Mediterranean Veal Cutlets with lemon and parsley.

Mediterranean Veal Cutlets

Portuguese Bitoque Steak with fried egg on a green plate

Steak with Fried Egg (Bife com Ovo a Cavalo)

Beef Wellington with juicy meat inside the puff pastry.

Best Beef Wellington

Helena is holding a wooden spoon with meatball over the skillet with meatballs

Meatballs with Black Truffle

Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef and Rice Recipe in a bowl with yogurt.

Stuffed Peppers with Ground Beef and Rice

Fish Recipes

Gourmet recipes made with salmon, tuna, trout, sea bream and other fish. Check out all of my fish recipes.

A closeup of beautiful sea bream with sauce and peas

Pan-Fried Sea Bream

Two pieces of cashew crusted salmon on a blue plate with baked cashew around

Cashew Crusted Salmon

Flavorful Tuna Ceviche with Mango in a bowl

Tuna Ceviche with Mango

Whole baked tuna quiche on a white plate

Gourmet Tuna Quiche

Helena is holding a fork full of cod with potatoes over the plate with bacalhau a bras

Salt Cod with Potatoes and Eggs

Mediterranean Salmon Ceviche in a blue bowl.

Mediterranean Salmon Ceviche

Dessert Recipes

Tender and pleasing gourmet desserts that are perfect to make your loved ones happy. Try my desserts and have fun!

Amazing Tropical Fruit Pavlova ready to serve

Tropical Fruits Pavlova

Helena is trying cheesecake with one teaspoon full of berries

Blackberry Cherry Cheesecake

Napoleon Cake with Cherries served

Napoleon Cake with Cherries

Helena is holding a spoon of fig jam in the right hand

Mediterranean Fig Jam

Sliced piece of Blueberry Crostata on a baking paper

Easy Blueberry Crostata

Ready Kiwi Pavlova on a plate

Kiwi Pavlova

Updated Favorites

Check out some of the favorites that have been recently updated.

Two pieces of cashew crusted salmon on a blue plate with baked cashew around

Cashew Crusted Salmon

Helena is holding a fork with sausage and cabbage

Portuguese Sausages with Cabbage

A closeup of juicy steak on a plate.

Steak with Black Truffle Butter

Helena is holding a piece of smoked salmon tart with cottage cheese

Smoked Salmon Tart with Cottage Cheese

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