Spatchcock chicken with dende & coconut peppercorn sauce from FUSÃO - Untraditional Recipes Inspired by Brasil (page 214) by Ixta Belfrage

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    Chicken marinates 1-3 hours or overnight.

  • treay on March 02, 2026

    This is my first recipe from this cookbook, and I must say it was a winner! Absolutely delicious. Hubby just ate his first mouthful and commented 'this is really good!!' - always a plus. I followed the recipe -which is very easy to prepare- most of the time, except for making a couple of substitutes as I couldn't find any dende oil, and my urucum (annatto/achiote) was in paste form instead of grounded. There is a lot of pepper used in both the marinade and curry sauce, and at one point I was tempted to halve it (100 twists of freshly cracked pepper in both!!) but I didn't and it really worked, giving the sauce a peppery flavour but not overpowering. The onion and coriander weren't really necessary tbh. Last night we weren't very hungry, so we didn't have a side to the dish, but steamed rice would've been perfect with this really yummy sauce. I've been putting this book on the side for a while, but I'm now very keen to try other recipes from it!

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