Chargrilled chicken with garlic & peppers

Name: Chargrilled chicken with garlic & peppers
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 5 ml/1 tsp French mustard; salt and ground black pepper; 5 ml/1 tsp dried oregano; 1½ chickens, total weight about 2.25 kg/5 lb, jointed, or 12 chicken pieces; 2 fresh red or green chillies, deseeded and chopped; 2–3 red or green bell peppers, quartered and deseeded; 4 garlic cloves, crushed; lemon wedges, to serve; 4–5 ripe tomatoes, halved horizontally; 90 ml/6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; juice of 1 large lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

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An imaginative marinade can make all the difference to the rather bland flavour of chicken. We often have this easy but delectable dish, kotopoulo sti shara me piperies, for dinner in the summer, as it is very pleasant to cook under the stars rather than in a hot kitchen. All we have to do is marinate the chicken and place it in the fridge before going to the beach in the morning. That evening, while the chicken is being cooked on the barbecue, we prepare a large salad and a bowl of