Piri piri chicken
- Oven
- 200 °C200 °C (400 °F)
Ingredients
Chicken
- 4 chicken thighs
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 6 sprigs thyme
Piri piri sauce
- ½ red onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1–2 bird's eye chillies
- 1 tbsp sweet smoked paprika
- 1 lemon, all the zest and the juice of half
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- fresh basil
Method
Piri piri sauce
- Put everything in a food processor and blitz until smooth.
- Score the chicken thighs a few times, season with salt and pepper and fry in a pan.
- Slice the peppers, add them to the pan and cook for about 15 minutes.
- Transfer everything to a roasting tray, pour over the piri piri sauce and lay the thyme sprigs on top.
- Roast in the oven at 200°C for 15–20 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.Roast in the oven at 400 °F for 15–20 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.
Notes
- Good with sweet potato mash.
As she wrote it

Piri Piri Chicken
4 thighs
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
6 sprigs thyme
① Slash and fry chicken. (season)
② Slice peppers and add to pan (15m)
③ Add to roasting tray. + thyme
④ Oven Oven for 15-20 min. @ 200°C.
+ sweet potatoe mush
1/2 red onion
2 cloves garlic
#1-2 birds eye chillies
1 tbsp sweet smoked paprika.
1 lemon, all zest, 1/2 juice
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
Fresh basil.
Add all to food
processor and blitz.