Looking for a delicious and easy peri peri chicken recipe? Look no further! In this recipe, you will be using a simple marinade and cooking method to create a delicious and fiery chicken dish.
What is Peri Peri Chicken?
Peri peri chicken is a popular and easy-to-follow chicken dish that originated in South Africa. The dish is made up of grilled or roasted chicken that are coated in a fiery Peri Peri sauce. The intense flavor of the sauce can be quite overwhelming, so it is often served with a side of rice or naan bread to balance things out.
What Does Peri Peri Chicken Taste Like?
Peri Peri chicken is a hot sauce that is made from a blend of spices. The sauce is used on chicken, beef, pork, lamb, shrimp, and other foods. It’s also popular on salads and as an dipping sauce for chips or vegetables. Some people even use it as a marinade for grilled meat or fish.
The heat in the peri peri sauce can vary depending on how much chillis and how much you put into the dish. For example, some people might find it too hot while others love its fiery flavor.
What Should I Serve with Peri Peri Chicken?
When you’re thinking of a dish to serve with peri peri chicken, it can be difficult to decide. There are so many different options that it can be hard to know where to start.
One option is a simple side like rice or couscous. Another option is something more extravagant, like a Mediterranean-style salad with roasted vegetables and feta cheese. And if you’re feeling very ambitious, try serving the chicken with some of the Peri Peri sauce on top!
How to make the Peri Peri Sauce
The Peri Peri sauce is a mouth-watering, finger-licking, all-purpose hot sauce that can be used on just about anything. It is made from a blend of spices and peppers, and can be found in most grocery stores. The best way to make the sauce is by hand.
All you need are some basic ingredients:
- oil
- onion
- garlic
- vinegar
- salt & pepper
- chillis
- paprika
- sugar
- lemon juice
- To make the sauce more flavorful, you can add dried thyme or oregano to it.
Once everything is assembled, all you have to do is mix everything together and let it cook until the flavors meld together.
How to spatchcock a chicken
Peri Peri chicken is a popular dish throughout the world. It is often cooked in a traditional way, where the bird is laid flat, but spatchcocked gives it a whole new flavor and texture. The technique involves cutting through the backbone and spine of the bird, so that the chicken can be opened like a book. This not only makes cooking and eating peri peri chickens much easier, but also creates an incredibly succulent and flavorful bird.
There are a few different techniques for spatchcocking a chicken, but the most common is to use a pair of kitchen shears to cut along both sides of the backbone, then pull out the spine. If you don’t have kitchen shears, you can use a sharp knife.
Delicious Peri Peri Chicken Recipe
Moist and tender chicken with spicy peri peri sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup vinegar
- 5 cloves garlic
- 5 pieces bird-eye chillis
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 piece lemon squeezed juice
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tbsp paprika
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
Using a pair of kitchen scissors, remove chickens' backbone. Turn the chicken and flatten its backbone to spread the meat as much as possible (You can leave it as a butterfly or cut chicken in half)
Blend together all of the ingredients for the peri peri sauce marinade in a food processor and use 75% of the sauce to spread over the chicken. Cover and put in the fridge overnight. Save the leftover sauce for basting.
Preheat oven to 375F.
Place the chicken in the oven and roast for about 45 minutes.
Take out the chicken and baste the chicken with the left over peri peri sauce. Raise cooking temperture to 400F and roast for another 15 minutes.
Enjoy!