You can cook foods other than seafood in it, such as rabbit (ie, ingredients that can be cooked quickly), but seafood is the tradition with a cataplana.
A dear friend in Portugal sent me an early birthday present by courier. It is a cataplana, a clam-like cooking vessel from the Algarve region that hugs the Atlantic. That evening, I made a seafood stew in it. In Portugal, the stew itself is also called a cataplana.
Its design is based on a clam, both its shape and how it “clams” shut so thoroughly, and this is key to its use, because by “clamming” it shut, all the vapours remain inside while what you have put inside it is cooking. It is considered to be an ancestor of the modern-day pressure cooker, and you have to handle it carefully because it becomes frighteningly hot and you could burn yourself badly, quickly. But handle it with oven gloves and you’ll be fine.
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