Name: Peri-peri spatchcock chicken
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: ½ tsp paprika; juice of 1 lemon; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 75 ml olive oil; ½ tsp mild chilli powder; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 red pepper, cored deseeded, and roughly chopped; ½ tsp salt; 2 tsp sugar; 1 x 1.75 kg chicken; ½ tsp black pepper; 1½ tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 kg roasting potatoes, peeled and cut in half; 1 small red onion, roughly chopped; 1 large red chilli, stalk removed, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

Most of the recipes in this book don’t assume butchery skills, but its really worth learning to spatchcock a chicken, which means opening it out flat. The bird will cook in half the time, and you get the legs crisp and brown as well as the breast. This sauce is easy to make, but here’s a confession: I often use Nando’s mild Peri Peri and everyone loves it.

If you don’t have a rack to set over a roasting tin, grease the top oven rack in the middle and roast the chicken directly on th