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A traditional Portuguese dish that makes use of yesterday's bread to create a stew-style meal.
"A hipster cafe would describe migas as finely sliced kale tossed with cornbread crumbs and pine nuts; if you’ve grown up in Portugal, migas is a way of using greens from your garden mixed with leftover bread and a few nuts - the stuff of subsistence. Whatever way you look at migas, it’s one of the incredibly delicious, warm, hearty vegetable dishes of the earth. The cornbread crumbs are slightly sweet and toast up to golden crispiness, the pine nuts, which are plentiful in Portugal are toasted and the kale is finely chopped and cooked to an al dente texture. Jose Silva grew up in Portugal and moved to Australia at the age of 12, training in a French kitchen and now sharing some treasured recipes including this one at his chic Bibo Wine Bar in Sydney’s Double Bay." Maeve O'Meara, Food Safari Earth