Peri Peri Sauce For Roast Chicken And Gravy

What a good way for a quick and yummy roast dinner, different from the usual roast. It's Mediterranean based flavours . We have enjoyed eating it and I have no doubt you will. So easy to prepare. You will be left with a lot of spare time to do what ever you want. Watch some telly maybe or even read a nice book. I done the sauce with the food processor which was even quicker and easier to do. If you don't have one it doesn't matter you can still do . Just takes a little longer and a bit of chopping. This will be a great meal, especially when having people over for dinner and you need to impress, and not spend all day in the kitchen but with your guests

For the Peri Peri Sauce

Ingredients

2 red chillies (de-seeded if you want)

2cm ginger

5 garlic cloves

50 ml olive oil

25ml red wine vinegar

3 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp smoked paprika

3 tsp oregano

A pinch of sugar

1 lime, juice and zest

2 tbsp Tabasco sauce

Preparation Time: 5 minutes

Method

Get all the ingredients above. Put everything in the food processor and give it a good whip. Pour in a bowl and set aside for later. You can also prepare this a day in advance and leave in the fridge.

Preparing You Chicken

Ingredients

1 whole chicken (2 kilos)

Olive oil

Seasoning

New potatoes

1 red onion

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time : Over 2 hours

Serves: 4

Level : Easy

Method

Score your chicken with a sharp knife, so that the flavours will suck in it better.Transfer your chicken in baking dish, it need to be big enough , so later on you can put the potatoes in with the chicken. Like this they will soak up the peri peri flavour  Cover the chicken with olive oil and season well. Cover loosely with some foil , and put in a preheated oven 190 degrees for an hour.

After an hour, take the chicken out of the oven, remove the foil. I didn't throw mine away , I will use it again later to cover the chicken when it's resting. Get the peri peri sauce and pour over the chicken, and help it a bit with a brush so that you get all the parts of the chicken. Do not use all the sauce save a little for later , for making the gravy . You don't need a lot . Tip the potatoes and the red onion in  , (quartered) with the chicken. Leave to cook uncovered this time. For another hour 15 minutes. 

Leave to rest on a chopping board , covered with some foil for 15 minutes before carving. 

 

For The Peri Peri Gravy Sauce

Ingredients

Peri Peri Sauce (recipe above )

1 heaped tbsp plain flour

500 ml of hot chicken stock

Level : Medium

Serves : Four

Method

The baking tray you had the chicken cooking in. Pour all the fat away. The onion and maybe some burnt bits left in the tray. Put on the hob. Add the flour and de glaze the tray. Add the stock little by little, so that the stock is to your preferred consistency . Add the rest of the peri peri sauce. Bring to boil and leave to simmer for a couple of minutes. Serve in a gravy bowl . 

Mediterranean Roasted Vegetables

Ingredients

1 green pepper chopped

1 yellow pepper chopped

1/2 a red onion sliced

1 courgette sliced

2 cloves of galic

2 ripe tomatoes

2 carrots peeled and sliced

Thyme leaves

Dried oregano

Olive oil

Rosemary leaves

Seasoning

Smoked paprika

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time : 1 hour

Serves: 3/4

Level : Easy

Method

Get all your prepared vegetables in a baking tray and toss them . Add the herbs, oil and season. Put in the pre heated oven 190 degrees, bottom shelf for an hour.
Serve along with your peri peri chicken.