Piri-piri guinea fowl

Piri-piri guinea fowl

Try this fiery Portuguese marinade - chillies, garlic and lime juice - to bring extra punch to your poultry

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in an hour, plus marinating

Method

  1. Put the guinea fowl in a shallow dish, mix together the marinade ingredients and pour over. Leave for a couple of hours, or overnight if possible.
  2. Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Put the birds on a roasting tray skin-side up and pour the marinade over. Cook for about 45 minutes (basting occasionally with the marinade) until crisp, golden and cooked through. Chop into quarters (leave on the bone) and serve with salad or sautéed potatoes.
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Know-how

This fiery Portuguese marinade has many different incarnations, but the basic ingredients remain the same; chillies, garlic and the sharpness of lime juice or vinegar. Guinea fowl has a more gamey flavour than chicken so it stands up to marinating really well.

Per serving

581 kcalories, protein 84.4g, carbohydrate 2.7g, fat 23.4 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0.3g, salt 0.55 g

Recipe from olive magazine, April 2007.

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  • 13 May 2008

    kcikingkatie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious! I marinated for longer (2-4 hours) and stuck the fowl on the BBQ, my first dabble with guinea fowl and highly successful.

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  • 05 October 2009

    johnnie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    No guineafowl or even poussin so got a large free-range chicken and portioned it up. Marinade worked a treat, the lime and chillies keeping it fresh tasting and spikey warm. Result was a resounding success and can't wait to cook it again (and this time with guineafowl)

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  • 03 August 2010

    hlnharrison rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Really easy and tasted great. I made this for two so halved the ingredients and there was loads. Served it with rice with spinach and peas.

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  • 10 June 2012

    Goodfood rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Awful really - having cooked this it becomes very obvious that guinea fowl needs a rich complementary sauce - piri piri just do not do it! A really poor combination never to be considered again!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in an hour, plus marinating

Ingredients

FOR THE MARINADE

  • 4 red chillies , finely chopped
  • 2 limes , juiced
  • 3 garlic cloves , crushed
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • a small bunch parsley , chopped
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Per serving

581 kcalories, protein 84.4g, carbohydrate 2.7g, fat 23.4 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 0.3g, salt 0.55 g

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