Description
This marinade sauce will allow you to grill chicken with an authentic Portuguese flavour.
If you like Nando’s style chicken or chicken served barbecued style in Portuguese restaurants then you will love this sauce.
We like this sauce very hot, so we are using 8 fiery small chillies.
8 small red chillies (according to taste)
Half sweet red pepper (Romano)
2-3 cloves garlic (peeled)
2 tablespoonfuls of oregano
Half a cup of vegetable or olive oil
Half a lemon
70 ml of white wine vinegar
2 tea spoons of salt
1. Chop garlic, sweet red pepper and chillies into small pieces (discard stems, but keep the seeds from chillies and sweet pepper)
2. Heat vegetable oil or olive oil in a large sauce pan on a low to medium heat, when oil is hot, add the chopped garlic and sweet red pepper, the juice of half a lemon, the white wine vinegar and simmer gently for 10 minutes
DO NOT ADD THE CHILLIES TO THE PAN AT THIS STAGE YET
3. Remove pan from heat, add the chillies, oregano, salt and stir thoroughly
ALLOW TO COOL
4. When sauce has cooled, blend it into a fine puree.
5. Store in an airtight bottle or container and consume within 1 month.
(natural preservatives of garlic, chillies, salt and vinegar aid in the long life of this sauce)
This sauce is perfect for grilled or roasted chicken, but can also be used with pork and fish recipes, especially a prawn stir-fry.
For best results when grilling chicken, pierce the skin of chicken a few times with a fork to allow the full flavour of sauce to absorb into meat. Marinade overnight in the fridge, ready to grill the next day.
