Recipe: Perfect Portuguese Chicken

Portuguese Chicken. 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!

Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken breasts, and cook until nicely browned on both sides. Pour in chicken stock and white wine, using enough chicken stock so that the chicken pieces are covered halfway to two thirds by liquid. You can cook Portuguese Chicken using 2 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Portuguese Chicken

1. It's 3 pound of whole chicken.
2. You need of Peri Peri sauce (We use Nando's hot sauce).

We've streamlined the method, but kept all of the smoky, tangy, sweet flavors. Season the chicken with salt and make the Piri Piri Sauce. Meanwhile, combine all piri piri sauce ingredients in a bowl and season with salt. Portuguese linguica and chourico sausages are cooked in a tomato broth seasoned with onion soup mix, in this soup thickened with pureed red beans, potatoes and broken spaghetti noodles.

Portuguese Chicken instructions

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!.

The BEST Portuguese chicken I've ever had. I didn't add the two tablespoons of oil to the sauce because I had lots of sauce leftover. Piri-piri chicken is a spicy dish with roots in both Africa and Portugal. The dish was created in Angola and Mozambique when Portuguese settlers arrived with chile peppers (known as piri-piri in. Portuguese Marinated Chicken is a recipe that I grew up with.