Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, portuguese chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Portuguese chicken can be baked or grilled. You may double or triple the recipe (or more if required) for bigger batches of chicken. An easy recipe to make several servings for a party!
Portuguese Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Portuguese Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have portuguese chicken using 2 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Portuguese Chicken:
- Take 3 pound whole chicken
- Take Peri Peri sauce (We use Nando's hot sauce)
The dish is not found in Portuguese cuisine. Piri Piri chicken is a traditional Portuguese dish. It's usually grilled and charred whole chicken pieces covered in a chili based paste or sauce. The sauce or paste uses African Bird's Eye Chili which is grown all over northern Africa and southern Portugal.
Instructions to make Portuguese Chicken:
- Cut along one side of backbone and split open chicken.
- Flatten chicken legs and thighs by pushing down on them and insert metal skewers crosswise from one breast to the other at the top and one thigh to the other at the bottom.
- Grease grill with Pam and then heat grill to 550 degrees.
- Turn off 1 burner and put the other 2 burners on medium heat. Cook chicken on indirect heat (burner that has been turned off) for 20 minutes with breast side down.
- Continue to cook on indirect heat for 20 minutes with breast side up.
- Brush chicken with Peri Peri sauce and cook for 5 more minutes on each side (10 minutes total) on indirect heat. Then brush on more sauce and cook for 5 more minutes on each side (10 minutes total) on direct heat (burners that are on). Inner temperature of meat should be 165 degrees Fahrenheit when done.
- Serve with more Peri Peri sauce for dipping and your favourite side dishes.
- Enjoy!
Portuguese Marinated Chicken is a recipe that I grew up with. He was the youngest child and quickly Americanized, but his love for traditional Portuguese flavors grew. Wash your chicken off in the bottom of the sink, and pat dry with a few paper towels. Season with seasoning salt from front to back. Piri-piri chicken is a spicy dish with roots in both Africa and Portugal.
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