We just LOVE this spicy peri peri roast chicken recipe – it’s a really easy family dinner idea and guarantees empty plates!
You’ll only need a few ingredients to make this super tasty roast chicken recipe and we think you’ll love it so much you’ll be cooking it every week!
Peri Peri Roast Chicken Recipe
We use a blender to whizz up the peri peri marinade, then slash the chicken breasts and legs with a really sharp knife, drizzle the marinade over the chicken pushing it into the slashes with a spoon. Then all that’s left to do is roast it like usual, basting it every now and again.
How to make peri peri roast chicken
Peri Peri Roast Chicken Recipe
Equipment
- Food Processor
Ingredients
- 1 Whole chicken
- 4 Red chillies
- 4 Cloves of garlic
- 2 tbsp Red wine vinegar
- 2 Lemons juiced
- 1 tbsp Smoked paprika
- 2 tsp Dried oregano
- 2 tsp Soft brown sugar
- 1 Handful of flat leaf parsley
- 1 Big pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 200C
- Add all the marinade ingredients to a food processor and blitz until smooth
- Place the chicken into a roasting tin and slash through the skin and meat a few times on the chicken breasts and again on the chicken legs.
- Pour over the marinade and push it into the slashes using a spoon.
- Cover the chicken in tin foil and roast in the oven for around 1 hour 40 – then remove the foil and continue to roast until the chicken is cooked through properly with no pink meat remaining and the juices are running clear
How to serve peri peri roast chicken
I serve the peri peri roast chicken with herby diced potatoes, homemade Nando’s style peas, fried halloumi slices and buttery corn cobs.
You could also serve your peri peri roast chicken in any of these tasty ways!
- shred the chicken and stuff into toasted pittas with hummus and salad.
- shred the chicken and use to make peri peri fajitas
- shred the chicken and make peri peri chicken rice bowls with spicy veggie rice, hummus and salad veggies.
If you’re feeling lazy and just want dinner to be easy – add a side of peri peri flavoured oven chips and a big dish of coleslaw.
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