Jerk chicken (recipe)
| Jerk chicken (recipe) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Jerk chicken |
| Ingredients | Scotch bonnet peppers • Habanero peppers • Scallions • Shallots • Garlic • Fresh ginger • Fresh thyme leaves • Ground allspice • Black pepper • Salt • Ground cinnamon • Nutmeg • Ground cloves • Chicken legs |
| Cooktime (in hours) | 0.583333333 |
| Preptime (in hours) | 0.166666667 |
| Totaltime (in hours) | 0.75 |
| Keto friendliness | Keto friendly |
| Calories | 395.1 |
| Fat | 27.3 |
| Protein | 31.2 |
| Carbohydrate | 5.2 |
| Fiber | 1.1 |
| Net carbohydrates | 4.1 |
| Sugar | 1.2 |
| Saturated fat | 6.7 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 138.6 |
| Sodium | 573.4 |
| Servings | 8 |
| Reviewaggregate | |
Editor-In-Chief: Prab R Tumpati, MD
Obesity, Sleep & Internal medicine
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Jerk chicken (recipe) is a keto friendly food item with net carbohydrates of about 4-5 per serving.
Recipe instructions
- Discard stems, seeds, and ribs from 2 chiles and coarsely chop.
- Coarsely chop remaining chile including seeds (for a less spicy dish, seed half of chile before chopping).
- Blend chiles with remaining ingredients except chicken in a food processor until a paste forms.
- Cut several 1-inch-long slits in each piece of chicken, then rub paste all over chicken, rubbing it into slits.
- Marinate, covered and chilled, at least 2 hours or up to 1 day (longer is better for flavour).
- To cook chicken on charcoal kettle grill: When charcoal turns grayish white (15 to 20 minutes from lighting) and you can hold your hand 5 inches about top rack for 3 to 4 seconds, grill chicken, skin sides down first, on portion of lightly oiled grill rack with no coals underneath, turning occasionally, until cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes.
- To cook chicken using indirect heat on gas grill: Preheat all burners on high (until thermostat registers 500 8F).
- Turn off 1 burner and reduce heat on other burner (or burners) to medium.
- (Thermostat should register 350 to 375 8F. Grill chicken, skin sides down first, on portion of lightly oiled grill rack over unlit burner, covered, turning occasionally, until cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes.
- If you aren't able to grill, you can roast jerk chicken, skin sides up, in 2 large shallow flameproof baking pans (1 inch deep) in upper and lower thirds of a preheated 450 8F oven, switching position of pans halfway through roasting, until cooked through, 25 to 30 minutes.
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Then turn on broiler and broil chicken, about 4 inches from heat, until skin is browned and crisp, 2 to 3 minutes.
Food tags
Chicken, Poultry, Meat, Roast, Broil/Grill,, Oven
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Prep Time in Hours and Mins:45M
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