Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, jerk chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Score chicken and season with salt. Spoon desired amount of jerk marinade over chicken and rub into scores. This is one of my nephew's favorite grilled recipes.
Jerk chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Jerk chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jerk chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk chicken:
- Take 1 whole chicken
- Make ready 2 Scotch Bonnet
- Take 4 cloves garlic (grated)
- Make ready 3 cm piece ginger (grated)
- Get 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1 Tbsp allspice
- Get 1 Tsp ground coriander
- Prepare 1 Tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1 Tbsp soft dark brown muscovado sugar
- Get 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 3-4 Tbsp dark rum
- Make ready 1 lime
- Take Small bunch thymes
- Prepare 4-5 stalks coriander
- Prepare 1/2 Tsp salt
- Take 1/4 Tsp black pepper
This jerk chicken recipe is from Paul Chung, who grew up in Jamaica and sampled jerk throughout the island. It's fragrant, fiery hot and smoky all at once. Hot, succulent Jamaican Jerk Chicken is a tropical treat. You'll love the heat and flavor of this fiery marinade.
Steps to make Jerk chicken:
- Deseed scotch bonnet and chop to pieces. And strip thymes leaves from the stalks.
- Add all ingredients except Chicken, rum, and olives oil to a blender.
- Blend them together. Add olive oil and rum when the blender is running or add to blend until we have spreadable paste.
- Spread and massage all pieces of chicken. Then marinate them in the fridge for 1-2.5 hours.
- Heat up the oven to 200C.
- Place marinated chicken pieces to the tin roasting tray. Then roast them for 30 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, baste the chicken juice on top of all pieces. Put them back to the oven.
- After 30 minutes, check the breasts whether they are cooked. They should be quite nice and juicy. Take two breasts out of the heat. Chicken breasts are ready to be served.
- Baste the chicken juices on the rest of chicken pieces. Then put them back into the oven for 5-10 minutes. After 5-10 minutes, check whether they are cooked and ready to be served.
Jerk chicken is synonymously tied to Jamaican cuisine, just as the hamburger is tied to American cuisine. It is probably the most recognized dish that has come out of Jamaica. It is by far the most requested dish by tourists when they visit Jamaica. With its blend of spicy flavors, it is truly a must try dish whether you are visiting Jamaica. A great chicken dish, full of flavour with jerk seasoning, pineapple and sweet potato, served with rice and black beans.
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