Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, jamaican jerk chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
"Hot, succulent Jamaican Jerk Chicken is a tropical treat. You'll love the heat and flavor of this fiery Place chicken in a medium bowl. Cover with lime juice and water.
Jamaican Jerk Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Jamaican Jerk Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jamaican jerk chicken using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Jerk Chicken:
- Prepare 4 chicken legs
- Make ready 1 tin light coconut milk
- Get 1 lime
- Get 1 tbsp jerk spice
- Make ready 1/2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 4 spring onions chopped
- Take 1 cup basmati rice
- Get 1/2 can kidney beans
- Get 1/2 cup frozen garden peas
- Prepare 2 naan bread
- Prepare Mango chutney
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 seasonings used. In this installment of SAVEUR BASICS, we show you how to dice a hot pepper so your dishes have a touch of spice, but not overwhelming heat. 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!
Steps to make Jamaican Jerk Chicken:
- To start, place the chicken in a dish suitable for the fridge and prong each piece a couple of times with a fork. At this stage you will need: 1/2 of the lime, a tablespoon and a half of coconut milk and a tablespoon of jerk spice.
- Mix together the juice of half a lime, a tbsp and a half of light coconut milk and a tablespoon of jerk chicken spice
- Once mixed - massage into chicken pieces evenly and place in the fridge for 15 minutes (you can leave for longer if you want stronger marinade)
- Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 6. Place chicken in a small roasting tin and cook for 40/50 minutes, turning part way through.
- Mix together 200ml of coconut milk and 100ml cold water into a jug
- When the chicken has had about 30 minutes - put the oil into a deep frying pan and heat. Add chopped spring onions and fry to soften.
- Rinse the basmati rice and add to the pan with the kidney beans. Then add the water and coconut milk mixture and cook until rice is soft (note: you may need more water to ensure rice is cooked so monitor and taste!). When its nearly done, with 5 minutes to go - add the frozen peas.
- When everything is cooked, keep it warm while you toast some naan bread. Once thats ready, serve and enjoy spritzing the meal with the left over lime juice!
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. Jamaican jerk seasoning packs a wallop of herby, fiery, and tangy flavors unlike anything else. These two ingredients are what makes jerk chicken taste like jerk chicken. Jerk chicken is synonymously tied to Jamaican cuisine, just as the hamburger is tied to American cuisine. This is my real Jamaican jerk chicken recipe.
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