Type of chillies – If you cannot find African Birds eye Chillies, use any fresh red chillies that are hot.Test your chillies before you blend as every chilli is different. I think I definitely need to try this sauce. Score the skin of the chicken with the point of a sharp knife and place the chicken in the bowl of marinade, turning to coat each piece of chicken with marinade. This looks so full of flavor and has a wonderful color! It’s not garlicky as sriracha sauce but a very well balanced taste of the above mentioned notes.The chicken pieces are first slathered in the sauce, than they are pan roasted until perfectly cooked.The South African Peri Peri Sauce is the heart & soul of an excellent Peri Peri Chicken recipe.That’s all you need to do.We love eating out a lot but the bill sometimes makes me feel very guilty We love to make Peri Peri Chicken with chicken on the bones and skinless & we love using mostly chicken thighs and drumsticks.You may call this Portuguese Peri Peri Chicken or Mozambique Peri Peri Chicken.Nando’s a famous restaurant Chain that is popular for making outstanding Peri Peri Chicken and today’s recipe is an attempt to mimic the taste of Nando’s.You can also use a mix of various cuts of chicken to cook today’s Piri Piri Chicken recipe. We say chicken! The chillies they use are called birds eye (dried are best) which are crushed and put in a bottle with olive oil for use as and when. They are super handy.It’s super easy, can be made ahead of time, economical and is made without African Birds eye chilli. Perhaps you should specify specific brands of ingredients if you believe your recipe does mimic nando’s peri-peri. Delicious with almost anything, Nando's range of PERi-PERi sauces combine flavour with varying degrees of heat that will satisfy the flavour profile from a PERi-PERi beginner to a fiery heat seeker.

I love the idea of using the peri-peri sauce on salmon, such a great flavor for fish!We have Nandos as well, here in Australia, so I am very familiar with their Peri Peri sauce. I can’t resist them.Oh!  What I do is put 4-6 tbsp worth into freezer bags for future whole chickens or I coat some chicken thighs or even salmon fillets in it before freezing them raw.I hope you enjoyed the sauce Dawn and that it was the taste of home you remember. I miss Nandos and this will remind me of South Africa. Today this African fusion food is strongly associated with South Africa. The chillies they use are called birds eye (dried are best) which are crushed and put in a bottle with olive oil for use as and when. The plants naturalized there and evolved into the African Birds Eye or Peri Peri chilli, on which this sauce is based.This is the beauty of making your own – complete control over the heat level!Peri peri makes a refreshing change from curry or stir fries, and we love it for a spicy reminder of the sun on grey winter days.This is so good and so addictive!The peri peri dishes we know today arise from that meeting of cultures and cuisines. What goes well with this PERi-PERi sauce? If your still not sure add one chilli at a time to the blender so you can really control the spice level to your preferred taste. 3 Put the grill on medium-high heat and cook wings for 15 mins, flipping once. A very versatile sauce Hey Jo, one quick question. I used 20 orange Habeneros and 10 bell peppers instead. I’ve tried it once so far and I loved it. I grill or roast meat coated in my Peri-Peri Sauce in the colder months but I can’t wait for the summer to get that charcoal smokiness into the mix on the BBQ.I’ve never heard of Nando’s but this sauce looks amazing! Thanks NehaMy friend grows tiny red peppers for hot sauce and I have had the chance to try theirs. You can’t beat a homespun version of anything edible Yum!! And than just before serving I brush a thin layer of the homemade peri peri sauce and than roast them on a skillet grill until re-heated.Use a generous amount of Nando’s Peri Peri sauce and marinate the chicken pieces for a good amount of time (3-4 hrs or overnight recommended).When I am really hungry and greedy I marinate the chicken for just 30 mins Choose either skinless chicken on the bones or skin on chicken on the bones. This looks so full of flavor and has a wonderful color!  If you like a mere tickle of the hot stuff, then use only 10 chillies and you’ll be grand.

Somewhere in our cupboard, we have some peri peri packets. I get my chilis on Amazon and generally follow your recipe to a T; it’s perfect and comes out brilliantly every time. any idea what i can use as an added preservative?Peri-Peri (also called piri-piri) chillies are tiny little bright red chillies which you can find more readily available dried here in the UK than fresh.

The roasted flavors will make the sauce so so intense with deep smokey flavors. all i can say is WOW! I’m going to have to search and see.

Maybe I’ll be extra nice and make some of this for her as a gift. I miss Nandos and this will remind me of South Africa. when storing in the fridge for regular use, i find a small build up of a blackish bacteria near the top .