Piri Piri Chicken

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About this Recipe

Cooking Time

10

Prep Time

10

Cuisine

  • Portuguese

Serves

4

cooking style


Stove Top
Marinade

PROTEIN / DIET


CHICKEN

As you all know, I love the complex flavours of a good curry or slow-cooked dish, but come summer, there’s nothing I love more than the simplicity of some grilled meat enveloped in delicious spices. One of my favourites in this genre has to be Piri Piri Chicken. Actually originating in Mozambique, Africa by the Portuguese, this wonderful recipe has everything you want in a grilled meat dish – the tenderness of moist chicken in the centre, the smokiness of the charred outside from the grill and the sweet, spicy flavours from the rich Piri Piri spice blend.

By adding the whiskey or vinegar in this recipe, it not only cuts through the spicy flavours in the blend but helps to further tenderise the meat by breaking down its proteins during the marinating process. Ideally, I like to marinate this in the fridge overnight for maximum flavour however, if you’re a little short on time 30-60 minutes will do.

This dish is so easy to put together and the flavour this spice blend creates is just out of this world – simple cooking at its best!

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp The Spice People’s Mexican Tex Mex
  • 500g beef mince
  • 1 beef stock cube
  • 1 400g tin crushed tomatoes
  • 4 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1tbsp tomato paste
  • 2 carrots, finely diced
  • 1 red pepper, finely diced
  • salt
  • 2 tbsp The Spice People’s Mexican Tex Mex
  • 1kg beef mince
  • 2 beef stock cube
  • 2 400g tin crushed tomatoes
  • 8 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 4 carrots, finely diced
  • 2 red pepper, finely diced
  • salt

Method

  1. To create the marinade:
    Mix all ingredients together , then combine to coat the chicken . Leave in the fridge to allow the flavours to develop for 1hr or over night. Heat the grill to medium high then add marinated chicken pieces. the high heat will give the chicken a beautiful caramalised coating which will offset some of the heat from the chilli .
  2. Serve with smashed roast potatoes and brocoli or a garden salad.

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