Piri Piri Roast Chicken. Sit the chicken in a large roasting tin and season well with salt and pepper and a drizzle of oil. If you're a big Nando's fan, then we've got the perfect piri-piri chicken recipe for you. Piri-piri spatchcock chicken is much quicker to cook than a regular roast so perfect for a midweek meal. Removing the backbone and then flattening the chicken shortens the cooking time by half. Place chicken breasts and legs into a resealable plastic bag.

Pour in piri piri sauce, seal the bag, and shake gently to completely cover chicken. Rinse the chicken inside and out with cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Stir in the parsley, ginger, thyme and garlic. You can have Piri Piri Roast Chicken using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Piri Piri Roast Chicken

It's 1 of chicken, around 1.5 kg.
You need 2 of red peppers, halved and deseeded.
Prepare 5 tbsp of olive oil, plus extra to drizzle.
It's 1 tbsp of chilli flakes.
Prepare 2 tsp of sweet paprika.
You need 1 tsp of grated fresh ginger.
You need 3 of garlic cloves, roughly chopped.
Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
You need 1 tbsp of dried oregano.
You need 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
You need 1 tsp of cayenne pepper.

Using a sharp knife, carefully cut the chicken in half along the backbone. Rub the marinade all over the chicken, making sure to get into all the nooks and crannies. Here's all you need to make this delicious piri-piri roast chicken. Piri Piri (or sometimes Peri Peri) chicken is a Portuguese dish, named after the piri piri pepper that is popular there.

Piri Piri Roast Chicken instructions

Heat the oven to 200°C fan. Put the peppers in a roasting tin, drizzle with olive oil and season. Roast for 20-25 minutes until it started to char and soften. Remove from oven. Turn the oven temp down to 180c.
Put the roasted peppers into a food processor with the rest of the paste ingredients and whizz to a pulp. Put the chicken into a large mixing bowl. Rub the chicken with the paste. Drizzle with some olive oil and roast for 1 hour or until the chicken is cooked through..
To serve, carve the chicken then scatter with fresh mint, squeeze over lemon wedges and serve with roast potatoes and vegetables...

Piri Piri is usually some combination of paprika, vinegar, garlic and hot red pepper, that is basted on to chicken while it roasts or grills. Some genius has cooked a full Nando's peri-peri chicken in their slow cooker, so even though Nando's has shut its restaurants for the time being, we can still enjoy peri-peri chicken! What does Piri Piri Chicken taste like? The chicken gets a coating of sweet, sour, salty & spicy peri peri sauce and than it's either pan roasted or oven baked or grilled. The taste of peri peri marinade is dominant in Piri Piri Chicken.