Chicken Mozambique

Being Portuguese I thought it would be important to share a recipe with you from our culture, not only that but this particular one is so tasty that it brings about a serious case of “Sunday lunch food baby”….This awesome recipe is a great variation to a chicken Peri-Peri

Ingredients:

6 Cloves of Garlic, pressed

10mg Salt

2 Bay Leaves

5mg Paprika

Peri-Peri to taste

500ml of Coconut milk

2 Medium- sized chickens

Juice of 1 Lemon

125g Butter

50ml of Olive oil

Method:

1. In a large bowl, mix the garlic, salt, bay leaves, paprika and peri- peri to a paste. Add the coconut milk.
2. Cut the chickens in half and slit through the thighs, drumsticks and breasts. Place the chicken in the coconut milk marinade for at least 6-8 hours, turning often.
3. Remove the chicken from the marinade. Mix the marinade with the lemon juice, butter and oil.
4. Bring to the boil and use this mixture to baste the chicken which should be grilled over medium coals serve the chicken with any remaining marinade.

(Serves 4)

Try this recipe with prawns instead of chicken but, don’t invite anyone over, you aren’t going to want to share those babies.

What’s one of your favourite cultural dishes? Why not share them with me.

Enjoy my lovelies

S

Xoxo 

* Recipe taken from; 'Mimi Jardim's- Cooking the Portuguese way in South Africa'