Piri Piri Chicken Thighs | Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street | Recipes, TV and Cooking Tips

Piri Piri Chicken Thighs | Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street | Recipes, TV and Cooking Tips

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For our piri piri, a chili pepper sauce popular in South Africa, we use New Mexico or California chili powder to make a bold sauce to smother chicken thighs.

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Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons New Mexico or California chili powder
  • 1 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 1 tablespoon ground coriander
  • 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
  • 1 ½ tablespoons kosher salt
  • 3 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, trimmed
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 8 medium Fresno chilies, stemmed and quartered
  • 3 medium garlic cloves, peeled
  • ⅓ cup lemon juice
  • ¼ cup red wine vinegar
  • 1 cup lightly packed fresh cilantro leaves and tender stems, finely chopped

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