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Piri Piri Chicken with Rice

Piri Piri Chicken with Rice

Steve Lister

Free From GingerFree From TomatoMain

This is an Afro-Portuguese chicken dish, popularised across the western world by restaurants like Nando's. It is hot and spicy.

Serves 2-4

Ingredients

  • 200 gm. rice

  • 1 Medium chicken cut into large chunks - legs, wings etc

  • 5 medium/mild heat chillies (red ones)

  • 2 large peppers (Bell peppers/capsicum). Pictures here show 6 or so small, orange peppers, cut into large chunks/strips

  • 2 medium onions, peeled and cut into large chunks (I used 2 small red and one medium white)

  • 2-4 cloves of garlic sliced/chopped

  • 1 tsp. black pepper

  • 2 tsp. sea salt

  • 100-150 ml. extra virgin/good olive oil

  • Juice of 2 lemons (or a mix of limes and lemon as shown in pictures here)

  • Fresh parsley finely chopped

Instructions

  1. Cook/boil the rice in your normal way (I use microwave).

  2. In a large roasting dish, put the chillies, onion and peppers.

  3. Add chopped chicken pieces (note that I have scored them to get more flavour in).

  4. Add oil. You might want a little more if it is not fully coating everything.

  5. Add salt & pepper, squeeze the juice of the lemons/limes over and put in the skin (to be taken out later).

  6. Roast in a medium hot oven until all the chicken is nicely browned (check and turn over a few times).

  7. Once cooked, remove the lemon/lime skins and discard.

  8. Add the cooked rice and stir it gently into all the juices, onion and peppers.

  9. Place back in oven to cook a little longer, drying some of the juices up.

  10. Serve plenty of rice and assorted chicken pieces on each plate, then garnish with chopped parsley for decoration.

  11. Serve hot.


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