Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, jerk chicken & pineapple kebabs. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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The best Jamaican Jerk Chicken including oven and grilling instructions! It's incredibly flavorful thanks to hours of marinating in a vibrant and deliciously seasoned marinade. Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook jerk chicken & pineapple kebabs using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jerk Chicken & Pineapple Kebabs:
- Prepare 800 g chicken breast cut into chunks,
- Take 1 pineapple cut into chunky cubes, (or use defrosted frozen),
- Get Cooking oil for grilling
- Prepare For the jerk marinade:
- Take 1.5 onions roughly chopped,
- Get 1.5 scotch bonnet chillies, (can remove seeds for less heat),
- Prepare 1 good handful chopped thyme (or 2tsp dried),
- Make ready 2 crushed garlic cloves or 1tsp garlic granules,
- Get 1/2 tsp allspice, (or 4 tsp powdered jerk seasoning)
- Prepare 3 tbsp white wine vinegar,
- Make ready 2 tbsp dark soy sauce,
- Make ready Lots of ground black pepper, to season,
- Prepare Salt to season
- Get You'll need:
- Take Wooden skewers, soaked in water
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Instructions to make Jerk Chicken & Pineapple Kebabs:
- Add all of the marinade ingredients to a food processor/blender and make into a paste. Add along with the chicken pieces in a bowl and using a spoon combine together to coat completely. Marinade in the fridge for at least half an hour.
- When ready to cook, take the marinated chicken pieces and assemble the kebabs by alternating the chicken with the pineapple chunks. Heat up your grill or ready the BBQ. (I used a George Foreman grill).
- Drizzle the kebabs in a little oil if not BBQing then place on the hot grill. Grill until the chicken is cooked right through and the pineapple is nicely charred.
- Serve up and enjoy! Perfect with my Fireslaw (see previous recipe), or with rice and peas.
Jerk Chicken is believed to have been conceived when the Maroons introduced African meat cooking techniques to Jamaica which were combined with native Jamaican ingredients and. Try Levi Roots' sticky jerk chicken wings as a party nibble, or make more substantial jerk chicken thighs to fit in a flatbread or alongside rice and peas. Andi Oliver's jerk chicken and cornmeal waffles. Done right, jerk chicken is one of the great barbecue traditions of the world, up there with Texas brisket and Chinese char siu. It is Jamaica to the bone, aromatic and smoky, sweet but insistently hot.
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