Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jamaican jerk chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook jamaican jerk chicken using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jamaican Jerk Chicken:
- Take 4 chicken legs
- Make ready 1 tin light coconut milk
- Make ready 1 lime
- Take 1 tbsp jerk spice
- Take 1/2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 4 spring onions chopped
- Prepare 1 cup basmati rice
- Prepare 1/2 can kidney beans
- Take 1/2 cup frozen garden peas
- Make ready 2 naan bread
- Make ready Mango chutney
The key to jerk chicken that tastes like it does in Jamaica is to use pimento wood on the grill and make sure your meat gets those dark, crusty edges. This recipe adapted from Jamaican cookbook authors. Prepare the chicken by removing the backbone using a pair of kitchen shears or a sharp knife. Transfer the chicken to a baking sheet and and flatten it down to spread the chicken out as much as possible.
Instructions 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!
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 - 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! Jamaican jerk chicken is flavorful, tangy, sweet, & juicy.
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