Peri Peri Chicken

The most frustrating type of ?food wishes? I get are the ones asking if I can make a specific dish from a specific restaurant. They usually start off with something like, ?I just had the Chicken Fantasia at Pete?s Eats in Salt Lake City and loved it! Can you please show me how to make it?? I?d email back something like, ?I?d love to, but since I?ve never been to Pete?s Eats, or Salt Lake City, except for a 30 minute bus stop in 1983, I can?t.? I want to, but unfortunately I can?t.

?Sometimes, just for fun, I?ll Yelp the restaurant to see what the dish looks like, since you can?t have too many new ideas, but without experiencing it in its natural habitat, the chances of getting it close to what the food wisher was hoping for are slim. The point I?m taking a very long time making, is that?s basically why it?s taken me so long to do a peri peri chicken recipe.??

?I?ve never been to Nando?s, and every single request I?d get for peri peri chicken would include, ?just like they do at Nando?s.? Happily, peri peri is popular enough to be able to see many versions, so I eventually decided to not worry about doing a copycat, and instead just came up with my own formula based on these other sources. One of these days, I?ll be in a town that has a Nando?s, and I?ll give them a try, but for now, I love how this comes out, and I really do hope you give it a try soon.?

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