Churrasco Chicken | Brazilian-Style BBQ Chicken | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with terrasco chicken. That's right, this incredible South Americanstyle barbecue is more commonly associated with beef. But the chicken version is amazing. And since I was looking for something to pair with a chimmy cherry potato salad, I thought this would be the perfect choice. And I think my friends in Brazil, Uruguay, and probably Argentina would definitely agree.

And to get started, the first thing we'll do is put together our marinade, which is going to start with a whole bunch of sliced garlic,

as well as one seated and sliced hot Fresno chili pepper. And what we'll do is add a nice big spoon of coarse sea salt to those ingredients in a mortar. And then we'll take the pestle and we will start bashing. And we will keep bashing until we formed a coarse paste. And yes, you can use a blender, but we are always going to extract more flavor this way.

And that's it. Once our coarse paste has been produced, we will transfer in a whole bunch of freshly grated lemon zest, followed by some dried oregano. And then we're also going to want a couple teaspoons of paprika, which can be regular or smoked.

Okay, either will work since we're going to grill this anyway. And then we'll finish up with a little bit of ground cumin, at which point we'll give this another bashing and smashing, not to mention a little bit of mashing. And we'll work that over for about a minute.

During which time, our lemon oils are going to be mingling with our hot pepper oils and our garlic oils. And right about here, things should be smelling really, really good. And that's it. Once our mixture is looking a little something like this, we will finish up with our liquid ingredients, including some freshlysqueezed lemon juice, followed by some red wine vinegar, although I'm pretty sure any vinegar will work here.

And I've used cherry a few times, and that's really nice. And then last but not least,