Peri-Peri sauce is a complex and versatile condiment that will take your palate on a journey. Make a yummy dipping sauce or condiment or add some spices and turn it into a robust marinade to make Peri Peri chicken or Peri Peri Prawns.
Homemade Peri Peri Sauce
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♦Prep time: 5 min ♦Cook time:1 hour ♦Yield: 5-6 condiment servings OR enough to marinate 2 roasting chickens.
I often place a roasting chicken over the vegetables, placed on a wire rack. Killing two birds, if you will that way. I roast a simple chicken at the same time and this way the sauce gains flavor from the roasted chicken drippings too. In fact, if I have the peppers, I often added it to the pan, whenever I roast chicken at home.
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The chillies used here are all mild in heat. You can customize this to taste.
Peri Peri Sauce Recipe
Description
A fiery, zesty, and highly addictive condiment that captures the authentic spirit of Portuguese-African fusion. Unlike many thin, vinegar-heavy hot sauces, this version is rich and robust, utilizing a base of charred red bell peppers and onions to provide a natural sweetness and "brush-able" body.
Ingredients:
Additional ingredients and spices for making Peri Peri Marinade:
Instructions
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Get a roasting Pan or tray and add the following after prepping as follows:
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Onion - red and yellow, peeled and chopped roughly.
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Garlic, unpeeled - cut off the top to expose the cloves and add both parts to the pan.
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Chillies (red and green) & Mini peppers (yellow and orange) slit lengthwise.
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If using hotter small chillies (peri peri or serrano), add them whole.
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Add the harissa paste, balsamic vinegar a dash of salt, and then toss everything together.
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Roast at 218°C/424°F for one hour. (Place any marinated Chicken to Roast over a wire rack at the same time - optional)
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Squeeze out the softened, roasted garlic into a small blending jar or liquidizer along with all the roasted peppers and onion. Throw out any burnt bits. Also, add any drippings from the pan as well as the fresh mint leaves. Blend to a smooth paste. Add salt or seasoning to taste.
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Now you have a flavorsome dipping sauce or condiment. It's great with pasta, or with BBQ skewers, or to add to baked rice dishes.
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To make Peri Peri Chicken, Prawns, etc, we will go one step further and add some whole spices to this blended sauce.
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Add the 'Additional Ingredients and Spices' to the previously blended sauce and grind it all together to make a spicier, more robust paste. Use this to marinate whole chicken or breasts, or prawns for grilling or roasting.
Note
African Birdseye chili is very small but quite hot(piquant). It is also known as 'Peri Peri', Piri Piri, or Pili Pili. You can use the fresh or dried ones in the recipe if you like a really hot peri peri sauce. Serrano peppers also produce a hot and spicy sauce.- Key Ingredients: Onion, Peppers, Garlic, Harissa, Vinegar, Oil, Spices, Mint, Lime.
