How to Prepare Perfect Jerk Chicken

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, jerk chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jerk Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Jerk Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jerk chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Jerk Chicken:

1. Take marinade
2. Prepare 1 tsp thyme leaves
3. Get 1 tsp ground allspice
4. Get 1 tsp ground cinnamon
5. Take 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
6. Get 2 clove garlic,crushed
7. Prepare 2 spring onions(scallions) chopped
8. Make ready 1 tbsp cider vinegar
9. Make ready 1 tbsp lime juice
10. Prepare 2 tsp lime zest
11. Make ready 2 tbsp vegetable oil
12. Prepare 1 scotch bonnet pepper, finely chopped
13. Prepare 2 tbsp brown sugar
14. Prepare to taste salt and black pepper
15. Make ready chicken:
16. Take 12 chicken thighs or drumsicks

Instructions to make Jerk Chicken:

1. Put marinade ingredients in mortar, grind to a paste. You can mash in a bowl with a fork or pulse in a small liquidiser.
2. Place chicken in a bowl, pour marinade over and stir to coat evenly. For extra taste you can cut slits into chicken. Cover with clingfilm.
3. Place in fridge. Marinade for at least 4 hours, overnight is better
4. Place on baking tray and cook in pre-heated oven, 150 C, for 45-60 minutes, turning occasionally, until chicken is cooked through.
5. Serve with rice and peas and festivals (see other recipe)
6. You can cook these on the barbecue or under the grill, either way turn occasionally and ensure chicken is cooked through.
7. For special occasions you can add dark rum in place of vinegar.
8. With deference to the nice lady in the Tesco ad, I tried adding a couple of tablespoons of runny honey to the marinade, it takes it to another level !

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