Jerk Chicken
Jerk Chicken

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jerk chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jerk Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Jerk Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook jerk chicken using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Jerk Chicken:
  1. Prepare 6 chicken thighs, bone in
  2. Prepare 200 g basmati rice
  3. Get 2 (400 g) cans of peas
  4. Make ready Jerk Marinade:
  5. Prepare Bundle spring onions
  6. Prepare Thumb of ginger
  7. Take 3 garlic cloves
  8. Get 1 small onion
  9. Get 3 scotch bonnet chillies
  10. Make ready 1/2 tsp fried thyme
  11. Make ready 1 lime, juiced
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp soy sauce
  13. Make ready 2 tbsp veg oil
  14. Make ready 3 tbsp brown sugar
  15. Get 1 tbsp ground allspice
  16. Make ready 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:
  1. Blend all marinade ingredients together to make a puree. Give it a taste, and adjust if you want it sweeter/saltier/hotter.
  2. 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.
  3. When you're ready to cook it, preheat the oven to 180C. Oven roast the chicken for 30-45minutes, until fully cooked through.
  4. 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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