So I have a couple of foodie crushes and I have been chasing them down for guest posts 🙂 so I would be sharing them with you. One of my favourite foodies is Greedygirlcooks. I discovered her on Instagram and immediately fell in love with her page. Her pictures are amazing and she has said several times that there are many similar recipes between the Nigerian and Jamaican cuisine. She gave an example of Nkwobi being a similar recipe that Jamaicans and Nigerians share except Jamaicans obviously don’t call it Nkwobi. Enjoy her version of Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
Recipe:
Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
The only place you can get real authentically prepared jerk chicken is at a jerk spot on the road side in Jamaica or in the country at your grandma’s house (if she has an outdoor kitchen). Why? Because authentic jerk chicken is not cooked on a metal wire grill over coals, it’s cooked on top of green wood, as in the chicken lays directly on the wood and the wood above the coals. Then they cover the whole thing with a large meal sheet where the sides are open. This is cooked at lower flames for a long time, the burning of the wood imparts flavor onto the chicken and you end up with really juicy tender chicken. It’s served with ketchup & scotch bonnet sauce on the side and hard dough bread. Nowadays everyone has modern grill pans and ovens so home cooks do not use the green wood in making jerk chicken. You can however achieve the same flavor at home with good seasoning and a grill to oven method I used to get really tender Smokey chicken.
Ingredients:
Chicken seasoning:
16 pc chicken parts
2 tbsp oil
3 tsp. soy sauce
3t tsp. no salt seasoning
3 tsp. all spice
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. chopped scotch bonnet pepper
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. thyme leaves
1tsp. ginger powder
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. smoked paprika
BBQ sauce:
1 cup ketchup
1/3 cup sugar
ÂĽ cup molasses
½ cup honey
1 tsp. all spice
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. smoked paprika
1 tsp. cayenne pepper
Method
Image Source: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/
Link to her website : http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2013/07/barbe-jerk-chicken.html
About me:
I am a brand new food blogger baby, been sharing my recipes for the last 6 months. I have always been a lover of food and have been called greedy or “craven” (Jamaican patois) too many times, hence my name. I use to cook and share my recipes on my personal facebook and instagram and was always getting asked, how to do this and that, that’s why I decided to start a cooking blog as a way to express my creativity and love of food while sharing it with everyone. Since I am a Jamaican most of my recipes have some form of Jamaican influence, but I love trying dishes from different cultures, and I do this often. Most people don’t realize that my blog belongs to a Jamaican blogger at first glance, because I cook everything, not just Ackee and Callaloo. I do two post per week Tuesdays and Fridays, one written traditional and one video post where I film the instructions instead of a written instruction. Also every month has a different theme, so viewers have a guide as to what to expect weekly.
My blog: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com