Peri Peri Chicken Recipe | Nandos Chicken

Name: Peri Peri Chicken Recipe | Homemade Nandos Chicken
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 130 min
Ingredients: Red Capsicum / Red Bell Pepper - 1 large; Red Bird Eye Chilli - 6 (I used fresh red chillies); Garlic - 6 to 7 fat cloves; Red Chilli Powder / Paprika - 2 tblspn; Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp; Vinegar - 2 to 3 tblspn; Oregano - 1 tblspn; Salt to taste; Oil - 1/2 cup; Chicken Drumsticks - 5 to 6

Last Updated On: Dec 13, 2021 by Aarthi

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Bbq peri peri chicken (or homemade nando’s recipe) cooked in oven. Peri Peri chicken which taste absolutely juicy delicious.

Peri Peri Chicken Recipe

This chicken was on my mind for quite a long time. I love all kind of baked or roast chicken recipes. They are easy to make, pretty healthy than fried ones and taste delicious.

Wiki: Originally produced by Portuguese in Southern Africa (there is still a debate whether Portuguese initially produced it either in Angola or Mozambique), the sauce is made from peri-peri chilis (used as a seasoning or marinade). Beyond Portugal and the Southern African region (Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa) where it was born the sauce is particularly well known in the United Kingdom due to the success of the South African restaurant chain, Nando’s.

Recipes vary from region to region, and sometimes within the same region depending on intended use (example, cooking vs. seasoning at the table) but the key ingredients are chili and garlic, with an oily or acidic base.

Other common ingredients are salt, spirits (namely whisky), citrus peel, onion, pepper, bay leaves, paprika, pimiento, basil, oregano and tarragon.

Specially i have become a fan of this chicken dish, because it tasted fantastic. This chicken dish is made using a peri peri or piri piri sauce. It is an african chilli sauce made with bird's eye chilli. Since i couldn't find it here, i made it using the red chillies which are available here and it tasted fantastic.

Ingredients for Peri Peri Sauce

Red Capsicum / Red Bell Pepper
Red Bird Eye Chilli
Garlic
Red Chilli Powder / Paprika
Black Pepper Powder
Vinegar
Oregano
Salt to taste
Oil
Lemon Juice

How to Make Nandos Chicken

Take the ingredients given except chicken in a blender and make it into a puree.
Take chicken and make deep slashes on them.
Pour the marinate over it and mix well. Leave it for 3 to 4 hours or overnight. I left it for 2 days.
Now heat your oven to 250 degree C on grill mode. Line a baking tray with foil, place a rack over it and place chicken on the rack. Put this in the oven on the upper rack near to the grill. Grill this for 7 to 10 mins.
Invert the chicken and grill again for 7 to 10 more mins.
Now the chicken is well seared on both sides.
Now place the chicken in the foil lined tray, brush some more sauce over the chicken.
Change the oven temp to 120 degree C. Change to mode to baking mode from the grill mode.
Put the tray in the centre rack and bake for 25 to 30 mins.
Now the chicken must be juicy and tender..
When the chicken is cooking, pour the leftover sauce in a pan and cook till oil separates from it.
Serve this sauce with the chicken.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

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Peri Peri Chicken with Step by Step Pictures

Take all your ingredients

First take some chopped red bell pepper in a blender

Add in some fresh red chillies

add in garlic cloves

salt

Add in chilli powder

and some pepper powder

add in vinegar

add in oregano

now add in a good amount of oil

Now that everything is added into a blender..
TIME TO BLEND

Make it into a smooth puree

look how beautifully it looks

Take your chicken in a bowl

I made deep slashes in them

chicken prepped

Pour the delicious sauce over the chicken

toss them well..Time to marinate

You can marinate this for 3 to 4 hours..
but i left it in the fridge for two days

Line a baking sheet with foil, place a wire rack over it

now place the chicken over the rack

Pop it into the preheated grill on the top rack for 7 to 10 mins

this is how it looks..Bronzed and well seared..

now invert it

pop this back into the oven under grill for 7 to 10 more mins

Look it is beautifully seared

Now place this chicken in a baking sheet

brush with some more sauce

Now pop this into the oven in middle rack..Change the mode to baking mode, Reduce the oven temp to 150 degree C..

continue baking for 25 to 30 mins..This is how it
looks when it comes out of the oven

I had lots of leftover sauce from the chicken

Pour the sauce into a sauce pan

keep cooking them

I cooked them till oil separates

You can brush some more sauce over the chicken

But i served it as it is, with some sauce on the side

Delicious

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Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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AJ

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Looks delicious.
Just for the information: The Peri-Peri is the chilli from Africa but the sauce itself has Portuguese origin. You should also tag recipe as Portuguese chicken, Brazilian BBQ chicken, Nando's chicken. Nando's is very famous for peri peri chicken an people often look for the recipe.

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- Anonymous
  
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  Actually Heinz and few other brands have peri peri sauces. My Kenyan friend said write it piri piri. Nando's peri peri is a popular one
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_piri
  
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- Anonymous
  
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  Most of south America has root's in Africa so maybe we should just leave the name peri-peri.
  
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sutapa Purkayastha

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Looking so delicious .

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Anonymous

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Superb...dish wth fabulous pics. Am a beginer..let me knw baking in oven lyk thz is fuly oil free. Am n diet.. so i wish to prepare and eat as much i want. Am i ryt? Or it also consist heavy calories

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Anonymous

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owo.. very easy but looks yummy. Im going to try this surely... Thanks Aarthi..

Sabiha from Bangladesh

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Aarthi

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@Anonymousbaking chicken in oven is helthy since excess fat from chicken melts when it bakes

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revathi

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Thanks a lot for all your wonderful recipes. Where can I find fresh red chillies in chennai ? I have never seen them in any pazahmudir nilayam's . Can we use soaked dry red chillies ?

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Aarthi

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@revathiyes u can use soaked dry ones

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rani ananthu

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This looks yummy Aarthi! Can i skip oregano?

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Aarthi

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@rani ananthuys u can skip

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aisha

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Again here instead of grill cn i shallow fry... Helppp

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Aarthi

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@aishano, but you can grill them in a tawa

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- Deppi
  
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  My question is: when I do it on tawa, should it be on medium flame or sim? Also tell me if I should civer the tawa?? Thank you
  
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Anonymous

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Hi AARTI,
The red chilies is with the seeds or without? Also the red capsicum with or without the seeds?
Thanx.

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Aarthi

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@Anonymousit is with seeds

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Chiminie

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Looks yummy and I hope to try but I don't have an oven, would pan frying it be ok? Thank you in advance.

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Aarthi

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@Chiminieu can pan fry it, but cook it on a low heat and keep an eye on it

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Nishanth Premhar

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@Aarthi

i am a beginner.. a guy 🙂 .. so how can i grill it in a tawa? help pls...

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Aarthi

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@Nishanth Premharu have to put it in a grill pan or tawa and cook it on low heat covered till chicken is done.

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Gayathri Vikkraman

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Hi Arthi,

I just tried it, it came super awesome.. it was juicy as in resturant... very nice taste and flavor... thanks for sharing this...

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Sumi

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Hi , i have recently started going through your webpage. I like it very much as it makes the whole cooking process easy by looking at pictures.

I dont have an oven. I have microwave. Please help.

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Aarthi

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@Sumiu can use convection mode

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Betsy

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A really good recipe Aarthi...thanks so much for sharing. I really like the way you approach each dish, making it simple and do-able.

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Corina

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It looks absolutely amazing and so tasty! The flavour must really penetrate too because of those lovely big cuts into the chicken legs.

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Annie Abraham

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Aarathi, I dont comment that much. But you are a great cook and your recipes are so well documented. I have been using your site for many months now and am able to prepare dishes my family and guests enjoy. God bless

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divya devarajan

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Arthi... this dish jus awesome... tried it today... came out vry well... my hubby liked it alot. .keep up the good work.. all the viewrs i 200% like it vry easy to do too...

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Unknown

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hey aarthi.. it looks mouth watering !! i am going to try it..will let you know how it turned out ..

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Aiswarya Nair

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arthi, it looks mouth watering !! i will give it a try and let you know how it turned out

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Linda

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Hi Arthi,

This looks absolutely delicious! Would you be able to use chicken breasts instead of legs? If yes, how would this change the cooking time?

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- Aarthi
  
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  yes u can use. it will take around 25 to 30 mins to cook the breast. but adjust it as per the size of the chicken
  
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AK

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Hi Aarthi
When you say Chilli powder/Paprika, which one do you mean? I am assuming by Chilli powder you don't mean Mirch?
Thanks

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Nicole

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Hi Aarthi, if I use a tava to cook the chicken, will baking it after that be required?

Thanks

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Sana

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Birds eye chilli is nothing but nagercoil kaanthaari mizhagu

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Amy

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Hi, I’m getting ready to make this. I noticed the picture shows another ingredient that is not listed. Do you add lemon juice?

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Peri Peri Chicken Recipe

Ingredients for Peri Peri Sauce

How to Make Nandos Chicken

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