Cheese Grilled Linguiça

Linguica con Queso

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    as an Appetizer
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

When meat lovers in Porto Alegre, Brazil, get a carnivorous itch, they come to Na Brasa (literally “on the embers”) to scratch it. Waiters emerge from the kitchen in endless succession, bearing swordlike spits of grilled meats they carve directly onto dinner plates. They won’t cease fire until ordered to do so. That’s where the green and red medallions on each table come in: Green means to keep serving; red means to stop. Believe it or not, this megarich grilled sausage with cheese would be