Hi everyone, today I am going to make Nando’s peri-peri spicy grilled chicken wings.
If you have been to the famous chain restaurant Nando's, you must have heard of this signature dish.
Nando's is South African grill joint started by Portuguese.
Peri-peri is a kind of South African chili.
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First let’s go over the ingredients.
The main ingredient is chili. It’s very hard to find peri-peri, so you may use bird’s eye chili instead. Facing heaven pepper works too.
First, we are going to make a chili marinade sauce.
Remove the stem heads of chilis, and then mash them in a mortar.
I am using a mortar and pestle because of a smaller portion that I serve today. You may use a food processor or a blender if you want to make a lot at a time. 11 00:00:49 --> 00:00:42 Add in whole black peppers.
Mash for a while.
Add in a generous amount of salt.
Add while mashing with pestle.
Peel garlic cloves and add them in the mortar.
Mash them as well.
Keep doing so until they become liquefied.
Then paprika and olive oil.
Grind with pestle
and make all the ingredients into a paste.
Then scrape some lemon zest using a grater into the mixture.
Half a lemon zest will be enough.
Cut the lemon in half.
Squeeze the lemon juice into the mixture as well.
Mix thoroughly. And now the marinade sauce is done.
Have a taste. Make sure your sauce is salty enough, because all the flavor in chicken wings comes from this sauce.
If you prefer sour and spicy flavor, you can also add in an additional amount of pepper, white wine and vinegar.
You can marinate with this sauce, or bring it to a boil to make it a dipping sauce.
It works well with all kinds of grilled and BBQ meats.
This is a bottle of Nando’s homemade Peri-Peri dipping sauce.
They also have a marinade sauce for sale. If you prefer not to do it at home, just buy one from grocery store.
Now let’s marinate.
I personally like to marinate using a plastic bag, because it needs less amount of sauce.
Place the chicken wings in the bag, and then pour the marinade sauce in it.
Toss with your hands.
Make sure the wings are coated evenly with marinade.
Try to remove all the air in the bag.
Then seal it.
Leave this bag in the fridge to marinate.
You’d better leave it overnight.
[Marinate overnight in the fridge. Preheat the oven to 220C/428F the next day.] If you don’t have enough time, you can score on the wings, and then marinate for at least 3 hrs.
Once they are done, take them out of the fridge, and preheat the oven to 220C/428F.
Use a baking sheet, wrap it with aluminum foil, and brush a little oil on it.
Arrange the marinated chicken wings on top.
The wing tips will definitely get burnt during the baking process.
You may chunk the tips away and only keep the wingettes and drumsticks.
Or, you can save it by wrapping it up with aluminum foil.
Place the arranged wings into the 220C/428F oven.
Bake for 8 mins first, then take them out and flip.
Then pop them back in for another 8-10 mins.
Bake until the outsides are golden brown.
Remove the aluminum foil.
And then plate and serve them.
Grilled chicken wings are really good as beer snacks.
The flavor of chicken wings is greatly complimented by a beer.
Let’s take a look at the inside.
The chicken wings absorb all the flavor from marinating.
They turn out brown outside while remaining tender inside.
And they are very juicy and rich.
They taste a little sour besides the spiciness, which adds an appetizing flavor.
I hope you like this beer snack, peri-peri spicy grilled chicken wings.
Thanks for watching.