Conservas de Peixe Dâmaso, Lda. (Dâmaso canned fish) had revived the long tradition of tuna industry in Vila Real de Santo António, producing several specialties of this fish.

This family firm invests in quality and crafts production and, using the most modern methods and equipment for the storage and processing of products and raw materials, offers you the most delicious delicacies that history has taught: muxama; ova prensada (pressed tuna’s Roes); estupeta; sangacho (tuna red meat); and rabinhos de atum (tuna tails).

Combining the excellent traditional sea salt from Castro Marim and the ancient wisdom of the seamen and women of eastern Algarve, Dâmaso company offers unique flavors, inviting you to enjoy it.

GPS: 37.199242, -7.419211

Zona Industrial, Lote 6 | 8900-264 Vila Real de Santo António

NATURAL.PT PRODUCTS

Tuna’s Muxama

Tuna’s back meat is passed by coarse salt, pressed and then washed to remove excess salt. Then is dried in a controlled environment and temperature. Muxama is a product made with the same recipe Phoenicians and Romans used two thousand years ago and consists of salted and dried tuna back meat. Enjoy it as thin slices or grated. A delicacy… A kind of sea ham!

Tuna’s sangacho

Part of tuna removed from the red meat (dark muscle), with fishbones and placed in brine. Before consume it, put in water for 24 h and change the water regularly.

Tuna’s estupeta

Part of tuna resulting from trimmings during muxama preparation. Like sangacho, it is put in brine. To consume it, must desalted in advance; if you want to consume it on the same day change the water several times.

Rabinhos de atum Tuna’s tails

End part of the tuna prepared as sangacho and estupeta. To consume it do the same as mentioned for sangacho and estupeta.

Ovas de atum prensadas Pressed Roe Tuna

Tuna’s roes placed in coarse salt, pressed, washed and then dried in the drying tunnel. Like the muxama is consumed as thin slices or grated.