Empadão is a traditional Portuguese dish, [1] also popular in Brazil. It is a preparation made on an oven that can contain red meat, chicken, [2] tuna, [3] codfish [4] and seafood between layers of mashed potato, dry dough, rice, [5] bread [6] or inside of wheat flour pasta, [7] although the ground meat-mashed potatoes version is the more traditionally used, [1] similar to the English Shepherd's pie.
The filling consists usually of a refogado of red ground/sliced meat or codfish with onion and garlic. Tomato, mushrooms, sweet corn, green peas and requeijão are also used. [8] In one recipe, Empadão is made using only pão ralado (ground bread) and eggs as a filling which is then cooked on the oven like a pudding. [9]
Olives are also used as a topping.[ citation needed ]