what is the best side dish for Jerk Chicken?!
I keep reading that we should have white caribbean yams. (not the orange sweet potato kinds)
Well, those aren't available in my city.
I've thought about haitian beans and rice, but my husband won't eat rice.
Any other suggestions?
Also, do Jamaicans eat leftover Jerk chicken in sandwiches?
With what other ingredients? I found a recipe for avocado mayonnaise, but that's it.
Answers:
I am a former chef from Canada and worked in Jamaica, you can make cloe slaw with an oil and vinegar dressing, if your husband does not like rice, potato's is fine do a roasted or home fried style, Jamaica yams and other members of the Yam family are not served like potato's in the US and Canada, there used more as a veg in soups stews, dishes like "Rundown" or cooked and mashed to make a dessert called "Pone" a cross between sweet potato pudding and Indian pudding in the US, chicken and pork cooked in a jerk seasoning is nice the next day as a sandwich or shredded and add to a salad or tortilla wrap, here in Canada we sell a deli chicken roast with a Jerk flavouring.
You can use conventional yams. How can any one not eat rice? I would guess that a Jamaican would eat the leftovers in a sandwich- but you are not Jamaican, so what difference would it make?
How sad that he won't eat rice, which is traditional (and I love me some rice!).
Would he eat beans by themselves?
The sandwich idea sounds very good.
If you don't have white yams, just make potatoes.