Galinha à Zambeziana

Description

From Mozambique’s Zambezia province comes this spicy-hot chicken with coconut milk.

Ingredients

• 3 – 4 lbs chicken pieces
• 1 cup butter

Piripiri sauce variation for chicken

• 4 red peppers, crushed or 2 heaping tsp cayenne pepper
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 cup of coconut milk
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 6 sprigs parsley, chopped
• 1 cup butter or oil

Procedures

1. Marinate (soak) the chicken pieces in piripiri sauce for at least two hours (if you have time for them to marinate longer, cover and refrigerate).
2. When you’re ready to cook, melt a cup of butter and add it to the marinade.
3. Use this mixture to coat chicken while it cooks.
4. Either broil the chicken or grill it over a charcoal fire.
5. To broil, lay pieces on a rack over a pan deep enough to catch the grease that will drip down.
6. Cook 10 – 15 minutes on each side, basting several times with the sauce.
7. When chicken is tender, serve with a fresh batch of piripiri sauce - made as before, but heated for five minutes before being passed around.