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What should I order at Nando's?

Nando's is a grill, so the chicken is already the plate. What decides the order is the sides — and whether the peri-peri arrives on it or as a pot of mayo.

Order the chicken itself — a butterfly breast, a quarter or half chicken, or the wings — and then choose two sides deliberately, because the sides are where a Nando's order actually varies. Grilled chicken with corn, coleslaw or a salad is one meal; the same chicken with chips, garlic bread and a bottomless soft drink is close to two.

Best choices

  1. 1Butterfly chicken breast, any heatA whole grilled breast, flattened so it cooks fast — this is the most straightforwardly protein-forward thing on the menu
  2. 2Quarter or half chicken on the boneGrilled, not battered, and the bone means the weight you're served is mostly chicken
  3. 3Chicken wings, five or tenGrilled rather than fried at Nando's, which makes them a genuinely different order to wings elsewhere
  4. 4Corn on the cob, mixed leaf salad, or coleslaw as the sidesThe sides are the whole decision here — two of these alongside the chicken keeps the plate a grilled-chicken plate
  5. 5A wrap or pitta with a side salad instead of chipsIf you want bread, take it as the wrap and let the sides be the thing you moderate

Watch out for

  • Peri-peri chips and garlic bread are both easy add-ons, and together they are usually larger than the chicken
  • Perinaise and garlic mayo are mayonnaise — they go on generously and they are not part of the grilling
  • Halloumi added to a wrap or burger is a second, salty protein that changes the plate more than it looks
  • Bottomless soft drinks are bottomless; the refills are the part that adds up, not the first glass
  • The Sunshine Burger and similar builds stack egg, halloumi and sauce on top of the chicken — the stack is the order, not the bird

Also asked

Is Nando's a healthy option?

For a chain restaurant, it starts unusually well: the core product is grilled chicken, not fried, and you choose two sides one at a time. That means the chicken is rarely the issue. What varies is whether the sides are corn, salad and coleslaw or chips, garlic bread and macho peas — and whether the sauce arrives as peri-peri on the chicken or as a pot of perinaise beside it. Order the bird, pick the sides on purpose, and it's a grilled-chicken dinner.

What's the highest protein order at Nando's?

A whole butterfly breast or a half chicken, with a second protein-ish side if you want more — the chicken is the plate rather than a topping, which is unusual for a counter meal. Wings work too, and they're grilled here rather than fried. If you're building for protein specifically, keep the bread and chips as the thing you skip rather than the chicken as the thing you shrink.

Which Nando's sides are the best choice?

Corn on the cob, mixed leaf salad, coleslaw and the mixed veg keep the plate close to what the grill produced. Peri-peri chips, garlic bread, macho peas with feta and mash are the ones that make the order substantially larger. There's no wrong side — but two of the first group next to a butterfly breast is a very different dinner to two of the second, and the chicken is identical in both.

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