Atomic Chicken Chicken Peri Peri Seasoning Rub with charred peri peri chicken and lemon over glowing charcoal
Atomic Chicken PERI PERI SEASONING

Portuguese flame-grill flavour, no queue

Smoky paprika, garlic and a tangy citrus lift carried on a gentle peri peri warmth — rub it over butterflied chook or thighs and grill hot for proper Portuguese-style peri peri chicken.

Smoky paprika and tangy citrus on a gentle peri peri warmth — rub and grill for peri peri chicken.

Atomic Chicken Chicken Peri Peri Seasoning Rub 200g shaker
Portuguese-style peri peri grilled chicken, char-grilled with glossy chilli-garlic baste lifestyle photo

Portuguese-StyleCharred, chilli-glossed and straight off the grill.

Peri Peri

Grill it hot, baste it if you like, and let the chilli do the talking.

Peri peri (piri-piri) takes its name from the African bird's-eye chilli, a fierce little pepper native to Mozambique and the wider southern African coast. Portuguese traders folded it through garlic, lemon and paprika to build the marinade-and-baste style that travelled the world as "Portuguese chicken" — a butterflied or spatchcocked whole bird basted and charred until the skin blisters, wings finished the same way, or a dry rub worked straight into the meat before it hits the heat.

This is a focused range rather than a broad one, so start with Atomic Chicken's Chicken Peri Peri Seasoning Rub for a medium-heat Portuguese-style hit, Taipan BBQ's Portuguese Peri Peri for a garlicky, spicier grill rub, or Spicetub's Portuguese Chicken Mix, an all-natural sprinkle seasoning with no added MSG.

Those three are dry rubs and sprinkle seasonings, and Old Bones Chilli Co's Peri Peri Sauce covers the basting. Heat sits at medium across the range, with gluten-friendly and vegan-friendly options included.

Grill it hot, baste it if you like, and let the chilli do the talking.

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