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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 current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Jerk chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook jerk chicken using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk chicken:
- Take 1 large organic chicken
- Prepare 1 red onion roughly chopped
- Make ready 1 large knob of ginger roughly chopped
- Get 150 ml white wine vinegar
- Get 150 ml soy sauce
- Take 3 birds eye chillis or 2 scotch bonnets
- Get 1 tbsp turmeric
- Prepare 1/2 tsp allspice
- Take 1 tbsp ground pepper
- Prepare Handful fresh thyme
- Take Sprinkling of salt
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
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Instructions 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 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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