How do I make a Jerk seasoning?!
How do I make a Jerk seasoning?
Like jerk pork or or jerk chicken.
Answers:
Thyme, allspice, scotch bonnet peppers, and garlic are key ingredients in this recipe. Use this authentic spicy jerk rub on chicken, pork, fish, or vegetables.
INGREDIENTS:
* 1/2 cup ground allspice berries
* 1/2+ cup packed brown sugar
* 6 to 8 garlic cloves
* 4 to 6 Scotch bonnet peppers
* 1 tablespoon ground thyme or 2 tablespoons thyme leaves
* 2 bunches escallions (green onions)
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
* Salt and pepper to taste
* 2 tablespoons soy sauce to moisten
PREPARATION:
Place allspice, brown sugar, garlic, scotch bonnet peppers, thyme, scallions, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and soy sauce in a food processor and blend until smooth.
Cooking time 1 to 2 hours
Ingredients
For the chicken stock
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 chicken carcass, roughly chopped
? onion, finely sliced
1 carrot, chopped
1 celery stick, chopped
1 leek, chopped
sprig fresh thyme
1 garlic clove
For the jerk chicken
? tsp seasoning mix, such as 'Everyday Seasoning' (available in some specialist shops and online)
? tsp jerk seasoning
? tsp crushed garlic
few sprigs fresh thyme
2 chicken breasts, wing bone attached
For the jerk sauce
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 leek, chopped
1 celery stick, chopped
1 spring onion, chopped
? tsp crushed garlic
fresh thyme leaves
1 tsp jerk seasoning
1 tsp seasoning mix such as 'Everyday Seasoning'
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp tomato purée
250ml/9fl oz chicken stock (see below)
1 tsp cornflour, to thicken if required
For the vegetables
1 red pepper, finely sliced
1 green pepper, finely sliced
1 yellow pepper, finely sliced
vegetable oil, for deep frying
1 ripe plantain, skin left on
1 sweet potato, peeled
To serve
spring onions, finely sliced, to serve
chopped fresh chives, to serve
fresh coriander leaves, to serve
Method
1. For the stock, heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the chopped chicken carcass until coloured all over. Add the onion, carrot, celery, leek, thyme and garlic and continue to cook for a few minutes. Cover with cold water and bring to the boil, skimming off any scum that rises to the surface. Simmer gently for 40 minutes. Strain through a fine sieve into a clean pan, discarding the carcass. Boil the stock hard to reduce by half.
2. For the chicken, place the seasoning, the garlic and the thyme in a bowl and mix well. Remove the skin from the chicken and make diagonal slashes in the flesh. Place the chicken in the marinade and turn over to coat thoroughly with the mixture. Set aside for 20 minutes.
3. For the jerk sauce, heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan and gently fry the leek, celery, spring onion, garlic and thyme for 2-3 minutes. Add the jerk seasoning, Everyday Seasoning, sugar and tomato purée and cook for two more minutes. Add 250ml/9fl oz of the chicken stock and simmer for 10 minutes. If the sauce appears too thin, thicken it with a teaspoon of cornflour dissolved in a little cold water.
4. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
5. For the chicken, heat a non-stick ovenproof pan until very hot, shake the marinade off the chicken breasts and place them in the hot pan smooth-side down. Cook for four minutes until well browned. Turn the chicken over and cook for another four minutes.
6. Place the chicken into the oven and cook for a further 5-6 minutes, or until cooked through (the juices will run clear when the meat is pierced at the thickest part with a skewer). Remove and allow the chicken to relax for a few minutes. Before serving, pull the small tender 'fillet' away from the underside of the chicken breasts and slice the breasts in half lengthways. This gives three pieces of chicken per serving.
7. Place a little chicken stock in another pan, bring to the boil and quickly blanch the strips of peppers.
8. Place the vegetable oil into a deep, heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat until a small cube of bread sizzles and turns golden when dropped into it. (CAUTION: hot oil can be dangerous. Do not leave unattended.)
9. Cut the plantain into diagonal slices approximately 1cm/?in thick and deep fry in the hot oil for a few minutes until the flesh appears golden. Remove from the oil using a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
10. Use a vegetable peeler to trim long paper-thin slices from the sweet potato. Fry these in the hot oil for a few seconds until crisp. Remove from the oil using a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
11. To serve, place a mound of the blanched peppers in the centre of warm serving plates. Top with a small chicken 'fillet' and then build up the two halves of breast to form a pyramid. Surround with slices of fried plantain and carefully spoon the jerk sauce over the chicken. Balance some sweet potato crisps on top of the chicken and garnish with the coriander, chives and strips of spring onion.
INGREDIENTS
* 2 tablespoons dried minced onion
* 2 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme
* 2 teaspoons ground allspice
* 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
DIRECTIONS
1. In a small bowl, stir together the dried onion, thyme, allspice, ground black pepper, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, and salt. Coat meat lightly with oil, then rub seasoning onto meat.
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