Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, smoked jerk chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A Jamaican favorite, our Smoked Jerk Chicken is spatchcocked and marinated in a soy sauce and lime jerk marinade and slow smoked over pimento wood. It's full of flavor with Scotch bonnet peppers, cane sugar, fresh ginger and a hint of cinnamon. Dial the heat up or down with seeds from the Scotch bonnets.
Smoked Jerk chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Smoked Jerk chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook smoked jerk chicken using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Smoked Jerk chicken:
- Prepare 6 large garlic cloves
- Take Med white onion coarsely chopped
- Prepare 4 scotch bonnets (2 with seeds)
- Get Bunch cilantro
- Get 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/2 cup lime juice
- Prepare 2 tbsp badia jerk seasoning
- Get 5-6 green onions
- Get 5 pound whole chicken
The goal is to recreate the classic jerk chicken that originated in Jamaica. In Jamaica, jerk chicken stands are on the roadside. With flavors from the Caribbean, this smoked Jamaican jerk chicken has flavor to spare. The wet jerk rub contains a Scotch bonnet pepper for extra flavor and zing.
Instructions to make Smoked Jerk chicken:
- Process all and taste for seasoning and heat
- Spatchcock the chicken and split into 2 halves
- Loosen the skin and with a pairing knife poke holes or small slits through out the meat
- Cover the chicken with the marinade and rub under all the skin and massage it into the meat and let it marinate overnight
- Pull the chicken out and let sit at room temperature for about an hour. Remove the chicken from the marinade and wipe the marinade off the chicken, season the outside lightly with jerk seasoning (I lightly dust with cayenne as well because I like it hot)
- Smoke at 275 for about 2 hours and then turn the heat up to 400 to crisp the skin. I serve it with cilantro yellow rice and beer braised black beans with a cilantro lime chimichurri and mango hot sauce
Use a cut up fryer chicken for this recipe. When the chicken is cut into pieces, more surface area is exposed for maximum flavor from the jerk rub and the smoke. Mix soy sauce, teriyaki marinade, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, lemon juice, smoked salt, ginger, garlic powder, black pepper, and red pepper together in a small bowl. Place chicken strips in a large resealable plastic bag. Pour marinade over the meat and toss to coat.
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