Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jerk chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Score chicken and season with salt. Spoon desired amount of jerk marinade over chicken and rub into scores. We visit Jamaica once a year, but that isn't enough to get our fill of the awesome jerk chicken we eat in Negril.
Jerk chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Jerk chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have jerk chicken using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk chicken:
- Prepare 1 large organic chicken
- Get 1 red onion roughly chopped
- Get 1 large knob of ginger roughly chopped
- Take 150 ml white wine vinegar
- Take 150 ml soy sauce
- Take 3 birds eye chillis or 2 scotch bonnets
- Make ready 1 tbsp turmeric
- Make ready 1/2 tsp allspice
- Prepare 1 tbsp ground pepper
- Take Handful fresh thyme
- Take Sprinkling of salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
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:
- Roughly cut / chop up a onion. Throw into the processor or jug.
- Next add the chilli to the jug.
- Roughly cut up the ginger, put it into the jug also.
- Add the turmeric and allspice.
- Measure the soy sauce and white wine vinegar into a jug and then add it to the mixture.
- Add the pepper, sprinkling of salt and thyme.
- Blitz until almost smooth.
- Take the chicken, now you can just spread the marinade all over a whole chicken, then cook it accordingly to the packet instructions or you can spatchcock it. This speeds up the cooking time.
- Turn the chicken over, now with a pair of sharp scissors or a knife take out the back bone, by cutting down either side. Be Very Careful!
- Put it on a tray, pour som of the marinade inside, then
- Turn it over and press it down flat, some of the bones will crack cover it with more of the marinade then allow it to absorb all the flavours for as long as possible.
- Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees. Spray or drizzle the chicken with olive oil and salt. Place in the oven for 25 mins lift out and turn around and drizzle some of the juices over place back in the oven for another 20 - 25 mins. Check that the juices are running clear by testing with a knife! Leave to rest and serve.
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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