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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

  1. Put everything in a food processor and blitz until smooth.
  1. Score the chicken thighs a few times, season with salt and pepper and fry in a pan.
  2. Slice the peppers, add them to the pan and cook for about 15 minutes.
  3. Transfer everything to a roasting tray, pour over the piri piri sauce and lay the thyme sprigs on top.
  4. 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

Her page in the recipe book
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.