The Best Way to Cook Delicious Authentic Jerk Chicken

Authentic Jerk Chicken.

At the present, you could cook Authentic Jerk Chicken using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Authentic Jerk Chicken

1. It's 3 1/2 lb of One chicken (3lb of chicken breasts may be used if preferred).
2. You need 6 of Sliced Scotch Bonnet Peppers (jalapenos may be used if scotch bonnet peppers are unavailable).
3. It's 2 tsp of Thyme.
4. It's 2 tsp of Ground All Spice.
5. You need 8 clove of Garlic (finely chopped).
6. You need 3 medium of Onions (finely chopped).
7. Prepare 3 tbsp of Sugar.
8. Prepare 3 tbsp of Salt.
9. You need 3 tbsp of Ground Black Pepper.
10. It's 1 tsp of Ground Cinnamon 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste (Including Nutmeg & Ginger).
11. It's 1 tsp of Nutmeg 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste (Including Ginger).
12. It's 1 tsp of Ginger 1-2 Tsp of the following to taste.
13. You need 1/2 cup of Olive Oil.
14. You need 1/2 cup of Soy Sauce.
15. You need 1 small of Juice of Lime.
16. Prepare 1 cup of Orange Juice.
17. It's 1 cup of White Vinegar.

Authentic Jerk Chicken step by step

1. Chop the onions, garlic and peppers. These do not need to be chopped too fine as they will be liquidised by the blender..
2. Blend all of the ingredients (excluding the chicken) in a blender to make the jerk sauce..
3. Cut the chicken up in to 4 pieces..
4. Rub the sauce in to the meat, saving some for basting and dipping later.  Leave the chicken in the fridge to marinade overnight..
5. Cooking Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, turn the meat then bake for a further 30 minutes.  or  Grill the meat slowly until cooked, turning regularly. Baste with some of the remaining marinade whilst cooking. For best results, cook over a charcoal barbeque (ideally over a rack of pimento wood)..
6. Side Note: What locals wont tell you is this, using charcole (They sell Jamaican Charcole) and grilling it is sooo much better and the cherry is pouring some red stripe Jamaican Beer over the chicken while grilling ... it'll make you want to smack the cook.
7. Chop each quarter chicken portion in to 5 or 6 smaller pieces using a heavy cleaver..
8. Use a wooden spoon (or something similar) to hold the chicken in place whilst chopping and NOT YOUR HAND (you will be chopping with enough pressure to cut through bone!!!).
9. Serve with festival and salad or rice and peas or hardo bread and the jerk sauce left over for dipping..