Piri Piri Chicken with Rice
Piri Piri Chicken with Rice
Steve Lister
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
Cook/boil the rice in your normal way (I use microwave).
In a large roasting dish, put the chillies, onion and peppers.
Add chopped chicken pieces (note that I have scored them to get more flavour in).
Add oil. You might want a little more if it is not fully coating everything.
Add salt & pepper, squeeze the juice of the lemons/limes over and put in the skin (to be taken out later).
Roast in a medium hot oven until all the chicken is nicely browned (check and turn over a few times).
Once cooked, remove the lemon/lime skins and discard.
Add the cooked rice and stir it gently into all the juices, onion and peppers.
Place back in oven to cook a little longer, drying some of the juices up.
Serve plenty of rice and assorted chicken pieces on each plate, then garnish with chopped parsley for decoration.
Serve hot.