Nando’s Peri Peri Hen Burger

October 31, 2024

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That is my copycat of the FAMOUS Nando’s Peri Peri Hen Burger! A home made Peri Peri Sauce does double responsibility because the marinade for the Portuguese model grilled rooster and to make a tingly creamy Peri Peri “Perinaise” pink sauce. Wonderful for summer time BBQs!

Nando’s copycat Peri Peri Hen Burgers

Nando’s is a worldwide chain that’s recognized for the Portuguese model flame grilled rooster cooked with their well-known Peri Peri sauce. Right here in Australia, it has a cult following!

Since I created this copycat model, it’s been a favorite for out of doors BBQ gatherings, and for a lot of a number of years it was one in every of my most requested recipes in my circles (till they tasted the Subsequent Massive Factor!). The Peri Peri sauce is a chilli primarily based sauce which is available in a wide range of spice ranges, from very gentle to very popular. It’s full flavoured but recent, and I describe it as “a celebration in your mouth”.

It does triple responsibility as a marinade for the rooster and two sauces for the burger: a creamy tingly pink Perinaise sauce (additionally a shameless Nando’s copycat) and utilizing it as a sauce as is. The mix of the creamy sauce with the recent Peri Peri sauce within the burger is a killer!

Concerning the copycat Nando’s Peri Peri Sauce

The home made Nando’s Peri Peri sauce is a copycat that tastes remarkably just like the shop purchased model. However higher, as a result of it’s constituted of actual components!

It’s a mix of recent crimson chillies, capsicum/bell pepper, garlic, vinegar, oil plus herbs and spices (paprika, oregano, onion, sugar, salt, pepper). A concoction I cobbled collectively after an inspection of the Nando’s bottle – minus components and different thriller components. 🙂

As for the making half? Simply blitz every thing collectively. It actually takes seconds!

Elements in Nando’s Peri Peri Sauce recipe

Right here’s what goes into my copy-cat Nando’s Peri Peri Sauce. In the event you evaluate my recipe to the ingredient label of Nando’s Peri Peri sauce, you’ll discover that I don’t use precisely the identical components as a result of this can be a home-version copycat, meant to attain the same flavour utilizing readily accessible components.

For instance, Nando’s makes use of a wide range of chillies (cayenne pepper, serrano and African Birds Eye chillis). I can’t think about making this sauce with out making it insanely spicy utilizing solely recent chillis, so I’ve used capsicum (bell pepper) as a substitute for spice-free pepper flavour, and added spiciness utilizing Birds Eye chillis. Don’t fear for those who can’t get these, it’s straightforward to substitute – see beneath.

Birds Eye chillis – These are frequent right here in Australia and are pretty spicy. Use 3 for a light Peri Peri sauce (that is what I take advantage of), 1 for barely noticeable, and 5 for additional spicy. Word: Keep in mind that the spiciness is diluted ultimately end result by way of the cooking course of, addition of mayonnaise and bitter cream into the Perinaise Sauce. So I prefer to make my sauce slightly spicier than supreme as a result of I do know it’s not that spicy as soon as used within the burger.

Substitute with different recent chillies of alternative or dried chilli flakes (crimson pepper flakes). Begin with much less, blitz, then you possibly can add extra later and blitz once more.
Capsicum / bell pepper – As famous above, this provides good recent pepper flavour into the Peri Peri sauce with out spiciness. Use a medium one – if it’s too large, your sauce could find yourself too thick.
Garlic – It’s not Peri Peri Sauce with no good quantity of garlic in it!
Malt vinegar – This brown vinegar is constituted of ale, is much less sharp and has a hotter flavour than common white vinegar. Substitute with crimson wine vinegar, white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
Oil – Any plain impartial flavoured oil is ok right here, like canola or vegetable oil, and even an olive oil.
Spices – Simply common on a regular basis spices! Onion, paprika and dried oregano. I like to make use of smoked paprika after I’ve received it for a contact of free additional smokey flavour. Nevertheless, I take advantage of common paprika in a pinch if I don’t have it.
Purple meals colouring (optionally available) – To provide it a crimson color increase! Solely optionally available. I take advantage of pure crimson meals colouring so I don’t maintain again utilizing colouring in meals. 🙂

Elements for Peri Peri Hen Burgers

And right here’s what it’s essential to make the burgers.

Hen breast or thigh fillets

Thigh fillets is the better choice as a result of you possibly can simply use them with out pounding as they’re a juicier reduce of meat. For breast, I prefer to pound them so they’re extra even thickness in order that they cook dinner by way of evenly. Makes a distinction for this lean reduce!

Peri-naise (pink sauce!)

That is my copycat of the Nando’s Peri-Naise which is a Peri Peri creamy mayonnaise sauce. I feel Nando’s simply makes use of mayonnaise however I desire to lighten it up a bit by utilizing a mixture of bitter cream and mayonnaise, that method I will be beneficiant with the quantity I take advantage of on my burgers and never really feel as responsible! (And belief me, you’ll want to be beneficiant with this sauce, it’s a vital a part of the Peri Peri Burger expertise!).

The opposite burger issues

And lastly, to finish our Peri Peri Burgers, we simply want some gentle white rolls, lettuce and tomato. Any lettuce you could have / can get is ok right here. I take advantage of butter lettuce (the stunning gentle form). Rocket and child spinach might be nice too, although I’d in all probability keep away from utilizing chicory or different bitter lettuce varieties. If utilizing cos (romaine) or iceberg lettuce, think about shredding it.

How you can make Nando’s Peri Peri Hen Burgers

I pound rooster breast to make it even thickness so it cooks evenly, and it makes the meat extra tender. This makes an actual distinction right here as a result of breast is such a lean reduce and liable to drying out (although the marinade additionally helps entice juices).

As a result of thigh fillets are a juicier reduce, I don’t pound them until they’re extraordinarily thick (ie make them a bit thinner) or if they don’t seem to be massive sufficient (pound to make a bigger footprint so they’re slightly bigger than the buns).

1. Pound and trim breast

Cowl the rooster breast with go-between, a freezer bag or double layer of cling wrap, to guard it from tearing whenever you pound.
Pound to 1cm / 0.4″ thickness utilizing a meat mallet or rollling pin.

Lower the rooster into burger-size items which can be slightly bigger than the buns. Consider 20% shrinkage!
Comparability or bun to rooster piece. 🙂

2. MAKING THE BURGERS

Peri Peri Sauce – Blitz all of the components till easy utilizing a stick blender, meals processor, or blender. It gained’t be fully easy, but it surely shouldn’t have arduous lumps in it.
Peri-naise sauce – Use 3 tablespoons of the Peri Peri Sauce and blend it with the bitter cream and mayonnaise to make the Per-naise.

Marinade rooster – Then use 1/2 cup of the Peri Peri Sauce to marinade the rooster. Marinade for no less than 3 hours, as much as 24 hours. (Even 48 hours is ok, I simply discover past 24 hours I don’t discover any distinction).
Prepare dinner the rooster on the range or BBQ on medium warmth, or medium excessive in case your range is on the weaker facet. Don’t cook dinner it on too excessive a warmth else the marinade caught on the rooster will fully burn! We simply need some genuine flame-grilled chargrilled spots on the rooster, with out making it fully black.

Relaxation – As soon as cooked, relaxation the rooster for 3 to five minutes earlier than assembling the burger. This step permits the juices contained in the rooster to be re-absorbed into the meat fibres so you could have beautiful juicy rooster. Don’t skip this step!

Assemble burger – Right here’s my meeting order: Peri-naise slathered on the bottom, then high with lettuce, tomato and the rooster. Then I slather with extra Peri-naise and a heaping dollop of additional Peri Peri Sauce.
Eat! Pop the lid onto your burger then sink your enamel into it!

Wonderful for summer time gatherings

This Nando’s Peri Peri Burger was one in every of my “go-to” recipes for gatherings throughout hotter months. I’d marinade enormous portions of rooster then fortunately let others volunteer to do the BBQ’ing whereas I did necessary hostessing duties like sipping wine and discussing the perfect worth hairdressers on the town with my buddies.

As with all my “meals for a crowd”, I put these burgers out in a DIY scenario. Baskets of sentimental rolls, platters of lettuce and tomato slices with bowls of the Perinaise Sauce and Peri Peri Sauce on the facet. Then everybody builds their very own burgers. NO PLATES. Te he! Napkins solely! Don’t make me wash up! -Nagi x

PS Pictured in publish with a peek of home made wedges. Boy, what a combo. And glorious for dipping into the Perinaise Sauce!

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