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Recipe: Tasty Portuguese Bbq Chicken

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Portuguese Bbq Chicken. Submit a Recipe Correction Drain the chicken. Place flat on the unheated section of the grill, skin side down. Bring your favourite Nando's chicken to the table with this Portuguese BBQ Peri Peri Chicken Recipe!

Portuguese Bbq Chicken This can of course be done with a gas grill, but if you have the time, charcoal is the best way to enjoy it. This chicken does not need an sauce helping it to keep it's low-carb status. Portuguese Barbecue Chicken is one of the most traditional and popular dishes in Portuguese cuisine. You can have Portuguese Bbq Chicken using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Portuguese Bbq Chicken

  1. You need 4 of skinless bone-in chicken breast (half each breast).
  2. Prepare of Marinade.
  3. You need 3 of garlic cloves, minced.
  4. Prepare 2 1/4 tbsp of pimenta muida (crushed Portuguese chili pepper).
  5. You need of salt.
  6. It's 1 of fresh lemon juice (1 lemon).
  7. You need 1 tsp of olive oil, extra virgin.

Simple and easy to make, this dish is quite healthy and utilizes the natural and zesty flavor of lemon along with a spicy Portuguese paprika kick to make an unbelievably flavorful and hearty dish. 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.

Portuguese Bbq Chicken step by step

  1. Mix the ingredients for marinade, set some aside for basting the chicken on the bbq..
  2. Place chicken in the remaining marinade and let side for 30-60 min..
  3. Note: as a shortcut you could use the marinade pictured here... I sadly ran out so I decided to make the marinade from scratch. You can find the marinade in a Portuguese supermarket or the European isle at a local grocery store..
  4. Bbq chicken until juices run clear, basting in the last 5 min of cooking time.
  5. To make your own Portuguese Pimenta (ingredient 2 under the marinade ) I've listed the ingredients/method in the string attached 😊😊.

When made in its most traditional way, Piri Piri is truly slow food. Score chicken legs a few times using a knife and place in a resealable bag or a bowl. Portuguese chicken done well is an absolute delight. Spicy, lemony, spicy and a bit salty. Portuguese food is renowned for its taste and quality and is a major factor for Portugal to become one of US favorite tourist destinations.

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