Jerk Chicken Recipe

[LadyTaTa]

Mmmm Jerk Chicken... I really want to learn how to make a decent version of this. Does anyone have an authentic recipe?

[HonaloochieB]

First, hatch your chicken.

[HonaloochieB]

Second, murder it.

Over to someone else now.

[katie1997]

Mix yoghurt with chilli sauce, grated lime zest, lime juice, allspice, salt & pepper, chopped onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, mustard, sugar and oil.

Add chicken fillets and marinate for at least an hour.

Bake chicken in preheated oven for 50 mins or so. Turn at least once.

Finally, brown them under a preheated grill for about 2 mins.

Can't guarantee its authenticity tho, I copied it from a caribbean cookbook that happened to be within arms reach as I read your post :)

[DJKillaQueen]

Here you go:

To make the jerk seasoning

1 desertspoon allspice

1 desertspoon chilli powder

1 desertspoon paprika

2 tsp cinnamon

1 desertspoon salt

1 scotch bonnet pepper

half red pepper chopped

half green pepper chopped

1 bay leaf

1 medium onion chopped

6 cloves of garlic

6fl.oz vegetable oil

Mix all the ingredients together except the veg oil. Place in a blender to get a rough chop until they are all mised and then add the oil a bit at a time. That is jerk seasoning.

To make the chicken

Chicken

The jerk seasoning as above

57 ml clear honey

50g brown sugar

Score, stuff and roll the chicken in the jerk seasoning. place in a roasting tin and pour over the honey and sprinkle with the brown sugar and leave to marinade for at least an hour (overnight is best). Cook according to the cooking time of your chicken.

ENJOY :)

[HAL9000]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> Mix yoghurt with chilli sauce, grated lime zest,

> lime juice, allspice, salt & pepper, chopped

> onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, mustard, sugar

> and oil.

That's very similar to the yoghurt-based marinade used to make Tandoori Chicken: yoghurt, medium or hot curry powder, salt, black pepper, garlic, ginger and, optionally, lemon juice, mustard, red colouring. No sugar or honey, though.

[LadyTaTa]

Thanks for the recipes! Though I'll skip hatching and murdering my own chickens - I'm far too squeamish :))

[katie1997]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> katie1997 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Mix yoghurt with chilli sauce, grated lime

> zest,

> > lime juice, allspice, salt & pepper, chopped

> > onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, mustard,

> sugar

> > and oil.

>

> That's very similar to the yoghurt-based marinade

> used to make Tandoori Chicken: yoghurt, medium or

> hot curry powder, salt, black pepper, garlic,

> ginger and, optionally, lemon juice, mustard, red

> colouring. No sugar or honey, though.

So sue me hal9000 ;)

*adopts tony soprano accent

PS. Lady TaTa - hope the recipes work out!

[DJKillaQueen]

The sugar and honey keep the jerk sticky as it cooks in the oven.

[HAL9000]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> So sue me HAL9000 ;)

>

> *adopts tony soprano accent

HAL9000: ... You know Quasimodo predicted all this.

Katie1997: Who did what?

HAL9000: All these problems - the similarity between jerk and tandoori chicken recipes, the Middle East, the end of the world.

Katie1997: Nostradamus. Quasimodo's the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

HAL9000: Oh right. Notre Damus.

Katie1997: Nostradamus, and Notre Dame. Two different things completely.

HAL9000: It's interesting though, they'd be so similar, isn't it?" And I always thought okay, Hunchback of Notre Dame. You also got your quarterback and halfback of Notre Dame.

Katie1997: One's a fcuking cathedral.

HAL9000: Obviously. I know, I'm just saying. It's interesting, the coincidence. What you're gonna tell me you never pondered that? The back thing with Notre Dame?

Katie1997: No!

[DJKillaQueen]

Been a long day HAL?....:)-D

[cate]

Have a look at this local food blogger's site:-

http://helengraves.co.uk/2010/03/food-from-the-rye-jerk-chicken/

She has a few different posts including one with tips on the barbecuing/cooking part.

[Ladymuck]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> Been a long day HAL?....:)-D

The incorrigible computer is always like this! (Aren't you HAL9000)!?

Very clever that post...though not sure how Katie1997 is going to deal with him. We might have to come to her aid later...should she wish to give him a big fat slap! I know I would! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Funny though!

[DJKillaQueen]

Very funny......He does have a point though. Lime and Corriander...very Asian.

[Ladymuck]

Yes and as for yoghurt...oh dear...

"eh eh"...as people from the West Indies would say...and they should know...

Sorry Katie, but I'd sling that cookbook if I were you xx

PS: I'll still give you a hand in slapping HAL9000 though...been meaning to do it myself for some time now...

[HAL9000]

Has no one heard that dialog before? I laughed for a week when it first aired in the UK. I thought Katie was a fan? (Hint: I've changed the names to protect the innocent.)

[Ladymuck]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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>(Hint: I've changed the names to

> protect the innocent.)

Oh don't tease...tell all...

[HAL9000]

Ha ha ha! You can't slap me - you're offside, sunshine!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Any news re the Jerk Chicken Cook Off this year? The Horniman Museum website doesnt mention it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Aye MP - we normally hear about now don't we.

hang on tho

some news

I agree things do get too busy at Horniman and the traffic last year basically closed the road later In the afternoon. But then again there was a special atmosphere at the Gardens

[katie1997]

I hear there's a Tandoori chicken cook off...honestly no one'll notice the difference!

*rings EDF Recipe Police, reports self*

LM - book was written by a couple of Australian women...

HAL - not heard the dialogue but I read it in my Tony Soprano voice anyway, hope that's alright!

:))

[RosieH]

Missed the big jerk-off last year - hope I'm around for Brockwell Park this time round.

Is jerk chicken an in appropriate breakfast dish? nom nom nom

[Michael Palaeologus]

Good spot Sean. As you say, the Horniman Gardens did have a special feel, but the event seems to be suffering from its own success.

An early arrival is to be recommended as the Cook Off gets very busy later on in the afternoon.

Hopefully we will get the dates confirmed asap.

[HAL9000]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> HAL - not heard the dialogue but I read it in my

> Tony Soprano voice anyway, hope that's alright!

The Force is with you, young katie1997, but you are not a Jedi yet.

 

[katie1997]

hahahaha very funny

Jedi? the Force? Young?

*no comprendo*