Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jerk chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jerk chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Jerk chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have jerk chicken using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk chicken:
- Make ready 2-4 Scotch bonnets (finely chopped)
- Take 3 garlic cloves (crushed)
- Make ready 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 2 tbsp thyme leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp nutmeg (grated)
- Make ready olive oil
- Prepare 2 chicken breasts
- Take 5 g Worcestershire sauce
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Instructions to make Jerk chicken:
- Put the garlic, scotch bonnets, nutmeg, thyme and cinnamon in a bowl and mix ruddy thoroughly, adding olive oil to create the marinade.
- Score the chicken breasts with a knife, then place in the marinade. Massage the marinade into the breasts, making sure to coat all of the bloomin' chicken.
- Leave the chicken in the marinade for minimum 1 hour (24 hours is bloody perfect).
- Add some olive oil to a frying pan and heat it on a medium-high heat. Fry the chicken for 5-10 minutes, spooning marinade onto the chicken and turning it once. Add the Worcestershire sauce to the pan after turning.
- Once the chicken is mostly cooked, place it in an ovenproof dish. Use a tea strainer to squeeze all the flipping juices out of the remaining bits of garlic, chilli and thyme and cover the chicken in it. Put foil or a lid over the dish, whack it ih the oven and cook the chicken at 200°C for 5-10 minutes or until cooked.
- Now remove the lid or foil and place the chicken back in the oven for a further 5 minutes to crisp it up like it's in a Walkers factory.
- Serve with coconut rice and peas and enjoy!
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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