Event planning and design service based in Barbados
23/06/2020
Event menu options - Jerk Chicken
I love jerk chicken, I was introduced to it, when I was at UWI during Jamaica Week, it burned my mouth, cleared my nostrils and I fell in Love!
See the below recipe from The Real Taste of Jamaica by the late Enid Donaldson.
3 Whole chicken cut in halves
6 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
Jerk Marinade
2 tsp. ground Jamaican pimento
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp mace
1 tsp mace
1 tsp salt
2 tsp thyme
1 tsp black pepper
1 1/2 escallion
2 onions
2 scotch bonnet peppers
2 tbs cooking oil
1.Cut 3 chicken in halves. Rinse chicken in lime water, drain and season with the garlic.
2. Blend all the ingredients for the marinade together in a blender or food processor ( To grind pimento, heat grains in a frying pan in a tablespoon of oil until crisp and then blend)
3. Pour mixture onto seasoned chicken and leave to marinate for about 2 hours or overnight.
4. Light barbeque grill, make sure coals are white before putting on meat. Put chicken halves skin side down, and keep turning to prevent the chicken from getting too dark Allow to cook slowly.
Chop into to small pieces. Can be served with additional jerk sauce.
Serves 12
Try it and let me know how it turns out.
