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Easy
Quick

Key Ingredient
Chicken
Chilli
Lemon
Paprika

Food Category
Meat

Charcoal chicken with piri piri sauce

Cuisine: Portuguese Created by Luis Fernandes

Ingredients

1 whole chicken

Marinade
8 cloves garlic, crushed
Pinch salt
Juice of 2 lemons
1 tsp bay leaf powder
2 tsp paprika
2 shots scotch whisky (80mls)
2 tbsp very soft butter
1 whole chicken
Rock salt

Piri Piri Sauce
10 – 12 birdseye chillies, chopped finely (medium size, medium heat)
Pinch salt
Juice of ½ lemon
100mls olive oil
2 tbsp garlic powder (not crushed garlic as the mixture will be too runny)
Mix all ingredients into a thickish dipping sauce.

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Preparation

Mix all ingredients for marinade together.

Prepare chicken – trim away excess fat. Then use a sharp knife or kitchen scissors to cut the chicken through the breastbone. Open out, turn over and flatten by pressing down with your hand along the backbone.

Make a small cut under each wing to help it flatten further. Make several incisions in the flesh with a sharp knife. This will allow the flesh to absorb the marinade and allow fat to drain. Prick all over with a large fork.

Brush both sides with the marinade and sprinkle with rock salt. Cover and marinate in the fridge for 30 – 45 minutes.

Cook over a charcoal BBQ (or any hot grill if you don’t have a BBQ) turning frequently and basting continuously with the remaining marinade until both sides are golden brown – approximately 30 minutes.

Cut the chicken into pieces with kitchen scissors and brush with Piri Piri sauce.

Portuguese Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 31 Portuguese Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Vasco's Portuguese Charcoal Grill	Kingston
2.	Sabroso	Seddon
3.	Greco's on Broadway	Nedlands
4.	Madeira Grill	Petersham
5.	Little Portugal	Dulwich Hill
6.	Silvas	Petersham
7.	Anada Bar and Restaurant	Fitzroy
8.	Vaby's Mediterranean Grill Campbelltown	Campbelltown
9.	Vaby's Mediterranean Grill Penrith	Penrith
10.	Illawong Foodroom	Evans Head

27 Jan 2011 01:03 AEST

Carol

sydney

Amazing

I made this for an australia Day BBQ and it was soooo delicous. Chicken was extremeltender and the skin was nice and crisp. I couldn't find any bay leaf powder though so i left it out, and then i added in some black peper. I will definately be making this again!

16 Aug 2010 09:41 AEST

Michael Kwan

Killarney Heights

Basket Case

Hi Nikki. I found a grill basket, but not like the one on the show. It's enameled and springed. I got mine from Bunnings in the BBQ spares section. I'm going to try it out this weekend.

13 Jul 2010 05:20 AEST

Nikki Mortimer

Fortitude Valley

Grill basket

Does anyone know where to buy a grill basket like the one used for cooking the chicken over the bbq?

12 Jul 2010 08:11 AEST

sleekie

Thornleigh NSW

Oven & BBQ

I chickened out - conned Mr Butcher 2 Portugese Chook marinated 16 hours & added : brown sugar dried oregano fresh bay leaves 4 organic drama scotch & butter provided GR8 flavour Chook cooked in oven - no fan - turned & basted every 15mins with Chook between 2 greased cake racks - resting on top of roasting pan - foil on top approx 45 - 60 mins ( served oven juices & asian sweet chilli sauce at table ) BBQ whole between cake racks - then BBQ segmented chicken - basting on BBQ - WOOSHKA !

06 May 2010 09:33 AEST

Stefan

Truganina

On The Barbbie

Cooked on the barbeque grill and it was yuuuuuuuummmmmmmmoooooooooo. Better than nandos and more moist. 5 stars

05 May 2010 03:46 AEST

Regina B

keysborough

Confused with the Disagreement

I don't understand what the disagreements are about? About the taste or about the BBQ kettle or about the show? If it's about the taste, there are others liking the taste and didn't get the disagreement. If it's about the kettle, I just informed Parker the way I get similar effect of charcoal flavour on the chicken. Or people just click the choice for fun as some of the agreement/disagreement just doesn't make sense to the content of the post??? Weird.

04 May 2010 03:07 AEST

susana cardoso

st clair

louis chicken

you go loui good on u mate ur doing a great job with the place in bella vista it is the best the foood is great. and so is ur parents good on u guys keep it up xx

30 Apr 2010 07:32 AEST

CARALHO

FODASE

VAI A MERDA

i never se in my whole life pepole so bitches like ANA and LUIS are!

15 Oct 2009 01:04 AEST

Brian

Blue Mts

powdered bay leaf

If you can't find powdered bay leaf, buy a cheap electric coffee mill (<$20) and reserve it for spices in your kitchen. Works a treat on dry bay leaves. Bear in mind that most of the dried bay leaf you find is shops is not the best it could be. It's often poorly dried or it's been on the shop shelves too long and is nearly flavourless. It's no trouble to grow a small bay tree in the yard or in a pot. Pluck leaves when dark green and dry them in a wicker basket, away from direct sunlight.

21 Sep 2009 11:52 AEST

Adriana Hegarty

Wyndhamvale

Bay Leaf Powder

Would you please let me know where I can purchase Bayleaf Powder.

28 Aug 2009 01:04 AEST

Donna J

Glossodia, NSW

Good family food

Easy recipe, good family food

26 Aug 2009 04:06 AEST

Belinda

Damn I love piri piri sauce.

16 May 2009 10:37 AEST

Adro

Fulham Gardens

rotisserie taste

Parker, if you are interested in a similar small charcoal rotisserie with flat grill basket and an electric motor capable of turning 10kg+ of meat, email astirn@adam.com.au requesting information and pictures.

16 May 2009 12:54 AEST

Duncan

Fleet, Hampshire. UK

Looks tasty

I will definately give that a go, i've been looking for a decent piri piri recipe for ages now and this looks like the one for me.

10 Mar 2009 02:50 AEST

carmel

murrubeena

bay lef powder

can you please tell me were I can get bay leaf powder

08 Feb 2009 08:04 AEST

Regina B

Keysborough

Yuuuummmmm.....

I don't usually trust the recipe from a cooking show. My saliva was building up when I watched it. The chicken and the seasoning are just delicious!!! Good show, Maeve! To Parker, I used Webber Kettle Gold BBQ pit with rotisserie (bought from a bbq shop in Hampton, Vic) and a BBQ grill basket (bought from Mitre 10 Chelsea Height, Vic) to hold the butterfly chicken. If it's not because of the show, I don't think I'll buy the set.

21 Dec 2008 05:32 AEST

parker, leila

cockburn central

rotisserie taste

brilliant recipe, i made mine in the oven . where does one buy the rotisserie used on the show? am interested in getting a more authentic taste please.

18 Oct 2008 07:50 AEST

Cuques

Roseville

Big thumbs up

Fantastic recipe - quick, easy and outcome was SO delicious. Almost as good as the real thing from Petersham!

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