I just can't get it to perfection! Help please?!
I just can't get it to perfection! Help please?
I love cooking for my friends but there is just one thing that I absolutely love to cook although it never seems to taste as authentic as when an actual Jamaican cooks it! Jamaican Jerk Chicken.... My favourite dish! Could somebody please please give me the REAL recipe (no variations!) I wanna cook it this time so it tastes like how the jamaican cafe up the road cooks it! yum! Also if anyone has the real recipe for rice and peas and/or dumplings could you post please :-) I know it's alot to ask but I will be one happy bunny once I get the hang of it!
Answers:
Hello Sophie,
Try this, and you can prepare the day before.
Serves 6
Preparation time overnight
Cooking time 30 mins to 1 hour
Ingredients......
6 part-boned 8 oz chicken breasts
For the sauce.....
2 Large onions quartered
*1? scotch bonnet* or other chilli according to taste, halved and seeded
50g/2oz root ginger, peeled and chopped roughly
? tsp ground allspice
small bunch fresh thyme, leaves only
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
120ml/4fl oz white wine vinegar
120ml/4fl oz dark soy sauce
To serve.....
boiled rice
1 medium pineapple, pealed, cored and cut in wedges
4 limes, 3 cut in wedges, 1 juice only
* Seriously HOT*
Method .......
put all the ingredients for the Jerk Sauce in a food processor.
whiz until smooth.
place the chicken in a large shallow dish.
pour over the sauce, cover and leave to marinate in the fridge overnight.
on a hot griddle cook the chicken for 25-30 minutes.
baste now and then with the leftover sauce.
as it cooks, the thick sauce will go quite black in places (don't worry).
as it falls off it will leave behind a really well flavoured, crisp skin.
with a lovely moist tender meat underneath.
brush the pineapple lightly with oil.
char grill until golden brown on all sides.
squeeze over the juice of one lime.
serve the jerk chicken with the pineapple and wedges of lime on the side.
and a bowl of mixed leaf & tomato salad tossed with toasted sesame oil.
Bon Apetite
Regards....
Coffee Bean