piri-piri

British  

/ ˌpɪrɪˈpɪrɪ /

noun

1. a hot sauce, of Portuguese colonial origin, made from red chilli peppers

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Etymology

Origin of piri-piri

from a Bantu language: literally, pepper

Example Sentences

But you don’t eat at a piri-piri joint and order the bird grilled with a lemon-and-herb sauce.

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The chile typically used in piri-piri sauce is the African bird’s eye, a potent pepper with a complicated history of migration, colonization and assimilation.

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Not ready to surrender his piri-piri dreams, Germishuys workshopped his own sauces, apparently in his father’s garage, though you have to wonder where the truth ends and the legend begins here.

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But the dish I think about most is the espetada, the skewer of piri-piri chicken dangling from its own meat hook.

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I ordered an espetada — basically a metal skewer that hangs from a hook, like a garden tool in the shed — spiked with fat chunks of breast meat dripping with “hot” piri-piri sauce.

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