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Piri-piri chicken served on a wooden board

Piri-piri chicken

Name: Piri-piri chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: 1 chicken about 2kg; 2 dried hot chillies; 100ml red wine vinegar; 6 red chillies; 6 garlic cloves; 2 tsp smoked paprika; 1 tsp dried oregano; 1 tsp dried thyme; 1 tsp golden caster sugar; 2 lemons juiced

Tom Kerridge

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Serves 4-6

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 40 mins

Plus at least 4 hrs marinating and 30 mins resting

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This oven-roasted chicken can also be spatchcocked and barbecued. If you don't like it too hot, adjust the amount of chillies in the piri-piri marinade

Gluten-free

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

MetricUS

1 chicken

about 2kg

For the piri-piri marinade

2 dried hot chillies
100ml red wine vinegar
6 red chillies
6 garlic cloves
2 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp golden caster sugar
2 lemons

juiced

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Nutrition: Per serving (6)

kcal353
fat20g
saturates5g
carbs2g
sugars1g
fibre1g
protein42g
salt0.3g

Method

step 1

To make the marinade, tip the dried chillies and the vinegar into a pan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and leave the chillies to soak until the vinegar is cold. Put the red chillies, garlic, soaked dried chillies and vinegar in a food processor and blitz. Add the smoked paprika, oregano, thyme, sugar, a pinch of salt and the lemon juice. Blitz again to a paste and set aside.
step 2

Sit the chicken in a shallow dish and use a small knife to score all over with cuts 1cm deep. Make sure you do the legs and the underside. Tip the marinade over the chicken and massage into the cuts. Cover and chill for at least 4 hrs, but overnight would be better.
step 3

When you’re ready to cook, heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Roast the chicken for 1 hr, then turn the heat up to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and cook for a further 30-35 mins until a crust has formed on the outside of the chicken.
step 4

Remove from the oven and leave to rest for 30 mins. Serve with homemade wedges or jacket potatoes, coleslaw, some buttered corn cobs and chilli & mint peas.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2019

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