Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, jamaican jerk chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Jamaican Jerk Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Jamaican Jerk Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life.
Hot, succulent Jamaican Jerk Chicken is a tropical treat. You'll love the heat and flavor of this fiery Jamaican Jerk Chicken. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility. Jerk chicken ISN'T jerk chicken without the Pimento wood. This is more a combination of jerk and Chinese Jamaican roast chicken, which is another treat in and of it self.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook jamaican jerk chicken using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Jerk Chicken:
- Get 4 chicken thighs or legs; bone-in
- Prepare 5 bunch scallions; trimmed
- Make ready 4 habanero peppers; tops trimmed
- Make ready 1 yellow onion; rough chop
- Prepare 3 clove garlic; minced
- Get 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- Get 2 tbsp ground allspice
- Prepare 1 tbsp fresh thyme; minced
- Prepare 1 tbsp brown sugar
- Get 1 tbsp cinnamon
- Get 1 tbsp ground coriander seed
- Prepare 1 tbsp white pepper
- Take 1 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1 tsp nutmeg
- Take 1 juice and zest of one lime
- Make ready 1 salt
All varieties of meats and even vegetables are traditionally marinated in a paste. Jerk Chicken - a well-seasoned grilled chicken with a Jamaican jerk marinade that has the perfect balance of heat, sweet and savory. You'll want to make this all year round! 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.
Steps to make Jamaican Jerk Chicken:
- Place all ingredients except chicken and oil in a food processor. Slowly pour in the vegetable oil while blades are spinning.
- Use half of the sauce to marinate the chicken from 4-48 hours.
- Wipe marinade off chicken and pat dry. Toss chicken with just enough oil to cover. Season with salt and pepper.
- If using a grill, set chicken skin side down to sear. Move chicken to a spot with indirect heat and baste chicken often.
- If cooking indoors, mark on a grill plate or sear the chicken skin side down in a large saute pan. Turn chicken over and baste with the remaining sauce. Throw the pan in a 350° oven for approximately 30-40 minutes or until chicken reaches 165°
- Alternatively, place chicken skin side up in a casserole dish and cover with the remaining sauce. Bake at 350° approximately 50 minutes or until chicken reaches 165°
You'll want to make this all year round! 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. Some historians believe it was originally developed by Maroons. 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. The history of Jamaican Jerk Chicken has been told so many times by so many people that to try to include this history in this article would be re-hashing the same thing over and over again.
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