Try this shrimp carpaccio for your next brunch

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THIS WEEK: Shrimp Carpaccio with Caper Sauce and Pineapple Salad from Porcão Churrascaria in New York City.

If you don't want to spend hours preparing a brunch dish, this Shrimp Carpaccio is the perfect answer to speed and simplicity. Carpaccio, which traditionally refers to a presentation of foods that are thinly sliced, makes for a modernly elegant centerpiece at any meal. Pair it with the fresh Pineapple Salad, and you've got yourself a light and healthy combination with a tropical twist.

About the chef: Top Chef Wilson Leal, a 15-year veteran of the company, oversees all the Porcão restaurants. He brings to New York the classic techniques of a Brazilian churrascaria, or barbecue place.

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His style is modern Brazilian cuisine, drawing on traditional dishes with global influences, including flavors and spices from Japan, France, Italy, and Africa. Chef Leal ensures the restaurants' consistency and high standards by supervising the sous chefs' intensive training as they learn how to make this very particular type of cuisine.

Shrimp Carpaccio with Caper Sauce and Pineapple Salad is served at Porcão Churrascaria as part of an all-you-can-eat $35.90 prix-fixe Sunday brunch. The recipe is for a serving size of two.

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Porcão Churrascaria
360 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10013
212-252-7080
www.porcaous.com

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