Smoked Jerk chicken
Smoked Jerk chicken

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, smoked jerk chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

So "Smokin' Sundays" are definitely a thing in our household at this point. My jerk chicken recipe will blow your minds! It's so tender, juicy and flavorful!

Smoked Jerk chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Smoked Jerk chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook smoked jerk chicken using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Smoked Jerk chicken:
  1. Make ready 6 large garlic cloves
  2. Get Med white onion coarsely chopped
  3. Take 4 scotch bonnets (2 with seeds)
  4. Take Bunch cilantro
  5. Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
  6. Take 1/2 cup soy sauce
  7. Take 1/2 cup lime juice
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp badia jerk seasoning
  9. Take 5-6 green onions
  10. Make ready 5 pound whole chicken

Smoky and aromatic grilled Jamaican jerk chicken that is full of flavor with mild heat levels. Jerk chicken grilling on pimento wood at Scotchies in Jamaica. [Photograph: Lauren Rothman]. This stuff could've passed for a direct taste-alike to the real deal. Coated in spices and slow smoked, chicken jerk is full of flavour with a hint of thyme, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Steps to make Smoked Jerk chicken:
  1. Process all and taste for seasoning and heat
  2. Spatchcock the chicken and split into 2 halves
  3. Loosen the skin and with a pairing knife poke holes or small slits through out the meat
  4. Cover the chicken with the marinade and rub under all the skin and massage it into the meat and let it marinate overnight
  5. 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)
  6. 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

You can choose to have it hot or mild, depending on your personal taste. Jamaicans like their jerk chicken very well done—even leathery— recalling another smoked food native to the Americas: jerky. Some scholars believe the terms are etymological cousins. Flavorful and complex, this Smoked Jerk Chicken Recipe packs a punch. While the overnight marinade might seem like a hassle it is well worth it for the finished product.

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