Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jerk chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The best Jamaican Jerk Chicken including oven and grilling instructions! It's incredibly flavorful thanks to hours of marinating in a vibrant and deliciously seasoned marinade. Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.
Jerk chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Jerk chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook jerk chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk chicken:
- Make ready 1 whole chicken
- Take 2 Scotch Bonnet
- Get 4 cloves garlic (grated)
- Prepare 3 cm piece ginger (grated)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 Tbsp allspice
- Take 1 Tsp ground coriander
- Take 1 Tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1 Tbsp soft dark brown muscovado sugar
- Make ready 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 3-4 Tbsp dark rum
- Get 1 lime
- Get Small bunch thymes
- Take 4-5 stalks coriander
- Prepare 1/2 Tsp salt
- Prepare 1/4 Tsp black pepper
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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 believed to have been conceived when the Maroons introduced African meat cooking techniques to Jamaica which were combined with native Jamaican ingredients and. Try Levi Roots' sticky jerk chicken wings as a party nibble, or make more substantial jerk chicken thighs to fit in a flatbread or alongside rice and peas. Andi Oliver's jerk chicken and cornmeal waffles. Done right, jerk chicken is one of the great barbecue traditions of the world, up there with Texas brisket and Chinese char siu. It is Jamaica to the bone, aromatic and smoky, sweet but insistently hot.
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