Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jerk chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Jerk Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Jerk Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have jerk chicken using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk Chicken:
- Prepare 6 chicken thighs, bone in
- Make ready 200 g basmati rice
- Take 2 (400 g) cans of peas
- Prepare Jerk Marinade:
- Make ready Bundle spring onions
- Prepare Thumb of ginger
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves
- Prepare 1 small onion
- Take 3 scotch bonnet chillies
- Get 1/2 tsp fried thyme
- Take 1 lime, juiced
- Prepare 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Get 2 tbsp veg oil
- Take 3 tbsp brown sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp ground allspice
- Prepare 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
Jerk chicken is delicious when roasted and served with rice and peas, or barbecued as kebabs. Succulent chicken thighs covered with jerk paste and simply roasted in the oven - perfect served with Caribbean rice & peas. 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:
- Blend all marinade ingredients together to make a puree. Give it a taste, and adjust if you want it sweeter/saltier/hotter.
- Make some slashes in the chicken thighs and pour the marinade over the meat. Rub it into the chicken. Cover and leave overnight in the fridge to marinate.
- When you're ready to cook it, preheat the oven to 180C. Oven roast the chicken for 30-45minutes, until fully cooked through.
- While the chicken is cooking, prepare the rice and peas! Cook the rice according to the instructions, and throw in the peas at the last minute. Mix them up and wala! Serve with the chicken and enjoy! Squeeze some lime over it all for extra flavour!
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. 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.
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