aletria

thumb|right|Aletria thumb|right|Aletria with a creamy consistency Aletria is a custardy Portuguese dessert based on vermicelli (aletria). In the Beiras region, aletria has a compact consistency, and is able to be cut in slices, whereas in Minho its consistency is more creamy.

==Origin== Llibre de Sent Soví, a set of two 14th-century manuscripts, in Catalan, contains a compilation of 200 recipes, of which there are two with alatria (170: Qui parla con se cou alatria or "how to cook vermicelli" and 171 : Qui parla con se cou carn ab alatria or "how to cook meat with vermicelli"). However, what they called vermicelli should have a very different shape from the current thin strands of dough.