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Waiting for a cook
Mozambique
Peri peri chicken is Mozambique's most famous dish: a whole chicken split flat, soaked in a marinade of African bird's eye chillies, garlic, lemon, oil and paprika, then grilled over charcoal and basted with more of the sauce until the skin is blistered and red. In Maputo and along the coast it comes with chips, a salad and a bowl of extra sauce. The Portuguese took it home and the world knows it through restaurant chains, but the chilli and the coals are Mozambican.
The draft was written from 4 published sources and holds 14 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.