Jerk Chicken

Name: Jerk Chicken
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 10 green onions, chopped; 6 large garlic cloves, peeled; 3 habanero chiles, stemmed and deseeded; ⅓ cup fresh lime juice; 3 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves; 1½ tablespoons packed brown sugar; 1 tablespoon salt; 1 tablespoon ground allspice; 2 teaspoons ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 5 pounds bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks

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Take a culinary trip to the islands with this recipe for Jamaica's most-famous dish. The key is in the Jamaican Jerk spice blend. Start with green onion, garlic, habanero chiles, lime juice, olive oil, soy sauce, fresh thyme, brown sugar, salt, allspice, black pepper, nutmeg, and cinnamon. These are all tossed in the blender to create the flavor-packed marinade for chicken thighs and drumsticks. After soaking up the flavors for at least 2 hours, the chicken is baked and then crisped under the broiler. Incredible!

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Mealthy Tip

Removing the seeds from chile peppers greatly reduces the spice levels. You can also trim away the white membrane inside the pepper for further heat reduction. Make this dish gluten-free by swapping tamari (a wheat-free version of soy sauce) for the soy sauce!

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving: 709 calories; 46g fat; 8.7g carbohydrates; 71g protein; 377mg cholesterol; 1524mg sodium.

Full nutrition

Amount Per Serving
Calories 709		Calories from Fat 410
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 46g		70%
	Saturated Fat 13g	64%
	Trans Fat 0.0g
	Polyunsaturated Fat 10.1g
	Monounsaturated Fat 22.3g
Cholesterol 377mg		126%
Sodium 1524mg		63%
Total Carbohydrate 8.7g		3%
	Dietary Fiber 1g	6%
	Sugars 3.9g
Protein 71g

Vitamin A 12%		Vitamin C 68%
Calcium 5%		Iron 22%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:

		Calories:	2,000	2,500
Total Fat		Less than	65g	80g
	Saturated Fat	Less than	20g	25g
Cholesterol		Less than	300mg	300 mg
Sodium		Less than	2,400mg	2,400mg
Total Carbohydrate			300g	375g
	Dietary Fiber		25g	30g

Calories per gram:

Fat 9 • Carbohydrate 4 • Protein 4

Tagged:

Latin American Chicken Caribbean Dinner Weeknight Video Chile Pepper Green Onions Dairy-free Oven Marinated Lime Juice

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Paul Kriloff says:

Awesome flavor! Definitely tend to it while it cooks - the sugar and the spices in the marinade will burn if you grill on too high a heat (as I did - and foolishly walked away not realizing how hot the grill really was). I also halved the amount of habanero, and it had a perfect amount of heat. I let it marinate overnight and poured the extra marinade on the chicken as it cooked for extra flavor. Delicious!!

Tal Levitas says:

I like my food spicy so I didn't seed my Habaneros. If you bake it in the oven, as I did, you lose some of the smoky flavor, but it came out really tender and juicy. The marinade is great, I think I'm going to try the marinade on shrimp next time.

Steve Failows says:

Those habaneros pack a punch, boy was this chicken a spicy little dish. it's my first time tackling a marinade with that kind of kick. I forgot to deseed the habaneros but it still turned out great - it might not be traditional "jerk chicken" but whatever it is I'm making it again real soon.

chef chris says:

The flavor from the marinade is great in this dish. Its just not the authentic jerk chicken I'm used to eating. Other than that, it really was good.