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Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Portuguese Chicken

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Iva Klein
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Portuguese Chicken

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, portuguese chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Portuguese Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Portuguese Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Discover the Best Selection of Portuguese Wines Online. This Portuguese chicken can be baked or grilled. You may double or triple the recipe (or more if required) for bigger batches of chicken. An easy recipe to make several servings for a party!

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have portuguese chicken using 2 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Portuguese Chicken:
  1. Prepare 3 pound whole chicken
  2. Get Peri Peri sauce (We use Nando's hot sauce)

Add half the piri-piri sauce, spreading it evenly over the chicken. Seal and marinate in the refrigerator for at least. Portuguese chicken was invented by local Macanese, combining the spices and ingredients from India and Africa, such as the main ingredient - Turmeric and coconut milk, mixing with Portuguese favourites, such as black olives and Portuguese chouriço. Turmeric is one of the star ingredients in many Macanese dishes.

Steps to make Portuguese Chicken:
  1. Cut along one side of backbone and split open chicken.
  2. Flatten chicken legs and thighs by pushing down on them and insert metal skewers crosswise from one breast to the other at the top and one thigh to the other at the bottom.
  3. Grease grill with Pam and then heat grill to 550 degrees.
  4. Turn off 1 burner and put the other 2 burners on medium heat. Cook chicken on indirect heat (burner that has been turned off) for 20 minutes with breast side down.
  5. Continue to cook on indirect heat for 20 minutes with breast side up.
  6. Brush chicken with Peri Peri sauce and cook for 5 more minutes on each side (10 minutes total) on indirect heat. Then brush on more sauce and cook for 5 more minutes on each side (10 minutes total) on direct heat (burners that are on). Inner temperature of meat should be 165 degrees Fahrenheit when done.
  7. Serve with more Peri Peri sauce for dipping and your favourite side dishes.
  8. Enjoy!

Portuguese chicken was invented by local Macanese, combining the spices and ingredients from India and Africa, such as the main ingredient - Turmeric and coconut milk, mixing with Portuguese favourites, such as black olives and Portuguese chouriço. Turmeric is one of the star ingredients in many Macanese dishes. No Portuguese Piri Piri chicken recipe can be made without using charcoal to grill the chicken. Any other recipe that requires frying, braising or oven roasting is a fake. The chicken is supposed to the grilled in whole so it takes time of the heat released by the.

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