Authentic Jerk Chicken
Authentic Jerk Chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, authentic jerk chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Authentic Jerk Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Authentic Jerk Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have authentic jerk chicken using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Authentic Jerk Chicken:
  1. Prepare One chicken (3lb of chicken breasts may be used if preferred)
  2. Get Sliced Scotch Bonnet Peppers (jalapenos may be used if scotch bonnet peppers are unavailable)
  3. Make ready Thyme
  4. Get Ground All Spice
  5. Take Garlic (finely chopped)
  6. Make ready Onions (finely chopped)
  7. Get Sugar
  8. Make ready Salt
  9. Prepare Ground Black Pepper
  10. Get Ground Cinnamon 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste (Including Nutmeg & Ginger)
  11. Get Nutmeg 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste (Including Ginger)
  12. Get Ginger 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste
  13. Prepare Olive Oil
  14. Get Soy Sauce
  15. Get Juice of Lime
  16. Get Orange Juice
  17. Get White Vinegar
Steps to make Authentic Jerk Chicken:
  1. Chop the onions, garlic and peppers. These do not need to be chopped too fine as they will be liquidised by the blender.
  2. Blend all of the ingredients (excluding the chicken) in a blender to make the jerk sauce.
  3. Cut the chicken up in to 4 pieces.
  4. Rub the sauce in to the meat, saving some for basting and dipping later. -  Leave the chicken in the fridge to marinade overnight.
  5. Cooking Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, turn the meat then bake for a further 30 minutes. - -  or - -  Grill the meat slowly until cooked, turning regularly. Baste with some of the remaining marinade whilst cooking. For best results, cook over a charcoal barbeque (ideally over a rack of pimento wood).
  6. Side Note: What locals wont tell you is this, using charcole (They sell Jamaican Charcole) and grilling it is sooo much better and the cherry is pouring some red stripe Jamaican Beer over the chicken while grilling … it'll make you want to smack the cook
  7. Chop each quarter chicken portion in to 5 or 6 smaller pieces using a heavy cleaver.
  8. Use a wooden spoon (or something similar) to hold the chicken in place whilst chopping and NOT YOUR HAND (you will be chopping with enough pressure to cut through bone!!!)
  9. Serve with festival and salad or rice and peas or hardo bread and the jerk sauce left over for dipping.

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