1) Madeiran cuisine 2) Portuguese dessert 
A malasada (or malassada, from Portuguese `mal-assada` = `under-cooked`) (similar to filhós) is a Portuguese confection, made of egg-sized balls of yeast dough that are deep-fried in oil and coated with granulated sugar. They were first made by inhabitants of the Madeira islands. Traditional malasadas contain neither holes nor fillings, but s...
A Portuguese doughnut.