JERK CHICKEN FULL
He’d have a grill full of a whole lot of jerk seasoned thighs and I fell in love with the sauce and flavors. I learned about Walkerswood brand jerk seasoning almost ten years ago from a local friend who cooked jerk chicken thighs at an annual party that his family held. Post in the comments if you have a favorite that you’d like for me to tackle. The control jerkĮventually I’ll make all these options. As always, don’t look to me for authenticity, but I am doing my best to pay homage to the flavors of the source.
The cooking process I use for my jerk chicken is typically just grilled over coals, but some of these sandwiches I cooked indoors on a grill pan, which is very far from a wood smoked process. In this blog post, I’m making an easy jerk chicken that you can cook at your house, so I’m not as concerned with the cooking process/technique as I am of the jerk marinade and seasoning. So, as we’ve covered, jerk usually refers to the marinade and seasoning as well as the cooking technique. None of this has anything to do with the pimento for our cheese, so we won’t start talking about that. Pimento wood is from the same plant that gives us pimento berries, which American shoppers and cooks would know of as Allspice. In Jamaica, food that is jerk seasoned and then cooked in jerk fashion is typically smoked over wood. Eventually the word charqui led to the English word of jerky. The word jerk is said to have evolved from charqui, a Spanish term, that stood for strips of dried meat. Jerk as a cooking style was being prepared way back at least as early as the 1600’s in the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica. Most jerk chicken is warm from the spices and the chili pepper heat and smoky from the grilling/smoking process. Seasonings like ginger, lime and thyme leaves are included to balance things out. If you’ve never had jerk chicken before, it’s spicy and a little fruity from allspice and chili peppers. NO JERKS ALLOWED TO READ AFTER THIS POINT This week I wrote about spicy jerk chicken sandwiches and if you’re not a jerk, please continue reading.
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