Piri-Piri Chicken Thighs

Piri-piri, sometimes spelled peri-peri, is a spicy sauce made from the bird’s-eye chile pepper, which Portuguese traders brought from the Americas to colonies in Africa—modern-day Angola and Mozambique. Piri-piri sauce combines the fruitiness and heat of the bird’s-eye chile with garlic, onions, lemon juice, and herbs to make a complex, flavorful hot sauce that is magical on chicken.

You should be able to find piri-piri in the hot sauce aisle of your grocery store or, at worst, onli