piri-piri

/ ˌpɪrɪˈpɪrɪ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of piri-piri¹

from a Bantu language: literally, pepper

Example Sentences

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

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For those with history in the D.C. region — by which I mean those who have lived here at least 15 years — you know that Galito’s is not the first South African piri-piri chain to test its menu in the Washington market.

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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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