Debone the fresh Cornish hen by cutting it for the spine, remove the rib bones, and wishbone.
Prepare the Cornish Hen marination by crushing garlic and put it large zip lock bag, add lemon juice and zest, worchestershire, and olive oil.
Add the Cornish Hen and marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
For the piri-piri, in a skillet chard the chilies and the garlic cloves (making sure the garlic has the skin on)
Combine all the remaining piri-piri ingredient’s in a blender, add the roasted garlic and chilies with both skins removed.
Blend all the ingredients and set aside in a mason jar until needed.
Clean all the vegetables and sliced the crusty bread.
Marinate the vegetables with two sliced garlic cloves, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Grill the vegetables until nice and chard.
Grill the bread slices and rubbed the remaining garlic cove just like making a bruschetta. Cut the slices in large dice and add them to the grilled vegetables.
Season the bread and chard vegetable salad with salt pepper, olive oil and fresh leaves of basil and keep it warm.
Remove the Cornish Hen from marination and set on a very hot grill.
Seared the Cornish Hen on both sides and continue to cook on indirect heat on the barbeque.
When Cornish Hen is almost ready start basting the last 10 minutes with the piri-piri sauce and allow the bird to reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
Remove the Cornish Hen from the grill, let it rest for approximately 5 minutes.
Serve the Hen on top of the warm vegetable salad and drizzle the piri-piri sauce.
Buon Appetit.
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Chef Notes: Piri Piri is one of our favorites marinating at home. You can use to marinate vegetables to serve with fish but also phenomenal to add to mayonnaise or a vinaigrette for a salad. Juice Pairing:Mint of Cucumber JuiceEquipment: Le Creuset Iron Skillet