Piri-Piri Chicken

Piri-piri is the Portuguese name for a hot sauce made with tiny fiery chiles and vinegar. The chile was a New World food, of course, and the Portuguese seafarers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries deserve credit for introducing it to the rest of the world. You still find the sauce in Portugal and in the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil, Macao, Goa, Angola, and Mozambique. The South African love of piri-piri no doubt comes from the two last, its northern neighbors.