Steps to Make Quick Authentic Jerk Chicken

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, authentic jerk chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Authentic Jerk Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Authentic Jerk Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Make ready One chicken (3lb of chicken breasts may be used if preferred)
2. Prepare Sliced Scotch Bonnet Peppers (jalapenos may be used if scotch bonnet peppers are unavailable)
3. Make ready Thyme
4. Take Ground All Spice
5. Make ready Garlic (finely chopped)
6. Get Onions (finely chopped)
7. Take Sugar
8. Prepare Salt
9. Prepare Ground Black Pepper
10. Make ready Ground Cinnamon 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste (Including Nutmeg & Ginger)
11. Take Nutmeg 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste (Including Ginger)
12. Make ready Ginger 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste
13. Take Olive Oil
14. Make ready Soy Sauce
15. Get Juice of Lime
16. Prepare Orange Juice
17. Take 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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