🌶️🔥 Best Authentic Portuguese Piri Piri BBQ Chicken Recipe | Perfect Piri Piri Marinade & Spices 🌶️🔥

piri piri sauce

🥗Healthier: homemade chili sauce

💰Cheaper: hot sauce

Homemade chili sauce can control heat levels and ingredients.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Avocado oil has a higher smoke point and is healthier.

butter

🥗Healthier: margarine

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Margarine can reduce saturated fat.

fresh parsley

🥗Healthier: cilantro

💰Cheaper: dried parsley

Cilantro offers a fresh flavor at a lower cost.

Prepare the spatchcock chicken by slicing down the breast bone.

Scar the chicken to allow spices to penetrate.

Drizzle olive oil over the chicken.

Season the chicken generously with rock salt.

Sprinkle piri piri spice on top of the chicken, massaging it in.

Flip the chicken over and repeat the seasoning process on the other side.

Prepare the charcoal barbecue, ensuring the coals are nice and white and hot.

Place the chicken in a grilling cage and put it on the barbecue.

Cook the chicken for 20-30 minutes on one side until the skin is crispy.

Turn the chicken over and continue cooking, basting with piri piri sauce using a brush.

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