Chicken Mozambique Recipes

PORTUGUESE CHICKEN MOZAMBIQUE

Steps:

• First, you will need to cut the white meat into smaller chunks.
• Clean your cutting board and knives and mince your shallot, garlic, and parsley.
• Add your butter, garlic, and shallot to your stock pot. Stir fry until fragrant.
• Dump the meat pieces into the pot and cook with the garlic, and shallots for about 5 minutes until chicken is golden brown.
• Pour in the beer, Goya Foods Sazon con azafran, and pepper sauce. Stir fry for another 5 minutes. By this time to the chicken should be pretty much cooked.
• Allow dish to simmer over low-medium heat for an additional 15 minutes.
• Sprinkle with parsley, and serve over white rice, french fries, or homemade mashed potatoes.

MOZAMBIQUE: PIRI PIRI CHICKEN

Steps:

• For the sauce
• Combine in glass jar. Shake or blend with immersion blender.
• Rest, covered in refrigerator for 1-24 hours (the longer the better).
• For the chicken
• Start a full chimney of charcoal and prepare grill for indirect heat with a disposable drip pan (Feel free to do this before you start the sauce)
• Place chicken flat on grill (with breasts facing away from coals if possible), skin-side up and apply piri piri sauce
• Grill 30 minutes, basting with sauce every 10-15 minutes
• Check temperature
• Grill 20-30 minutes more until breast reaches 160-165F (71- 74C) and the thigh is 165-170F (74-77C) flipping the chicken during last 10 minutes so skin gets crispy
• Rest chicken off-heat loosely tented with foil for 10-15 minutes
• Carve and serve with piri piri sauce

CHICKEN MOZAMBIQUE

Steps:

• 1. In a medium-sized pan, sauté chicken in two tablespoons of butter until cooked through. Remove from pan and set aside. Sauté onions and garlic with remaining two tablespoons of butter. Deglaze the pan with the beer, and return the chicken to the pan. Add hot sauce and simmer for two to three minutes, stirring occasionally. Add remaining ingredients, and simmer an additional minute.

CHICKEN MOZAMBIQUE - OUR PORTUGUESE RECIPE

Steps:

• Cut chicken into cubes
• Mince the garlic cloves
• Add the garlic and butter to an extra-large frying pan or shallow stockpot
• Saute the garlic and butter on medium heat until the garlic begins to turn translucent.
• Add the Chicken and wine to the pot
• Continue to cook on medium heat. Once the chicken begins to look cooked on the outside, add the Sazon Goya spices and hot sauce.
• Simmer for 20 minutes on medium-low heat.
• Prepare the rice in a separate pot, and top it with the Chicken Mozambique. You can add extra Mozambique sauce from the pan to the rice for a delicious dish!

SHRIMP MOZAMBIQUE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender, 4-5 minutes. Add garlic and shrimp; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in seasonings. Add beer and lemon juice; bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, until shrimp turn pink, 10-15 minutes. Stir in ketchup and parsley; discard bay leaf. Serve with rice.

PIRI-PIRI CHICKEN

Steps:

• For glaze:
• Melt butter in small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add cilantro and garlic; cook until garlic begins to brown, about 2 minutes. Add piri-piri sauce and lemon juice. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer 2 minutes. DO AHEAD: Glaze can be made up to 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm before using.
• For chicken:
• Finely chop cilantro, ginger, shallot, and garlic in processor. Add piri-piri sauce, 1/4 cup oil, lemon juice, coarse salt, and pepper; process marinade to blend.
• Place chicken, skin side up, on work surface. Using palm of hand, press on breastbone to flatten chicken. Tuck wing tips under. Pour half of marinade into 11x7x2-inch glass baking dish. Open chicken like book; place skin side down in single layer in dish. Pour remaining marinade over. Cover; chill at least 4 hours or overnight, turning chicken occasionally.
• Remove top rack from barbecue. Prepare barbecue (medium heat). If using 2-burner gas grill, light 1 burner. If using 3-burner gas grill, do not light center burner. If using charcoal grill, light briquettes in chimney and pour onto 1 side of lower grill rack. Place disposable aluminum pan on unlit part of grill. Place upper grill rack on barbecue; brush with oil.
• Remove chicken from marinade. Arrange skin side up on grill rack above drip pan. Cover barbecue; grill until skin is browned and instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165°F, turning often, about 40 minutes. Transfer to platter. Pour warm glaze over.

MOZAMBIQUE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Dissolve the tamarind paste in boiling water to make a smooth puree, adding water as needed to reach the consistency of tomato sauce. Chop the parsley leaves, reserving stems and set aside. Separate the scallion greens from the white parts. Leave the greens whole and chop the white parts. Set aside.
• Mix the tamarind puree, white wine, hot pepper sauce to taste and salt to make the marinade. Tie the parsley stems and scallions greens in a bunch and add to the marinade. Pour the marinade over the chicken pieces, mix well and let marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.
• Preheat oven to 325 degree F.
• In a large frying pan, brown the grated onions and chopped white parts of the scallions in the butter (or margarine). Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Remove the bouquet garni from the chicken and discard. Add the chicken pieces to the frying pan and mix well.
• Arrange the chicken pieces in a single layer in a baking pan and spoon the remaining marinade over the chicken. Bake, turning the chicken and basting from time to time to allow even browning, until the meat is tender and the sauce is nice and thick (50-60 minutes). If the sauce seems to be thickening too quickly, add a bit of chicken stock or water during the cooking, as needed.
• Garnish with chopped parsley. Serve with fresh creamed corn and additional hot pepper sauce on the side.