Chicken- Roasted Peri Peri

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  • Average budget

Ingredients

  • 1 whole chicken
  • 1 tsp chilli garlic paste
  • 1 tsp red chillies
  • 1 tsp pepper steak spice
  • 1 tsp crushed jeeru
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tblsp tomato paste
  • 1 ½ tblsp peri peri oil
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • ¼ cup ghee or olive oil
  • SAUCE
  • ½ cup tomato puree
  • 3 tbslp lemon juice
  • ½ tsp peri peri spice
  • Salt to taste
  • Left over marinade
  • Ghee used for frying

Preparation

Step 1

Cut chicken into half/butterfly.
Wash, clean and pay dry.

Step 2

Combine spices with tomato paste, peri peri oil, lemon juice and marinate the chicken.
Leave for 3 to 4 hours.

Step 3

THEN
Heat ghee in a large frying pan and fry the chicken. Remove the chicken from the ghee and leave aside.

Step 4

Combine the sauce ingredients together and add the left over marinade and ghee.

Step 5

Pour the sauce mixture over the chicken and place in an oven tray. Cover with foil. Bake @180c/ 350•f for 30 minutes.

Step 6

Remove foil and bake for 10 minutes basting chicken constantly with left over sauce and marinade.