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Spicy, hot, tender, juicy oven baked jerk chicken

Jamaican oven baked jerk chicken

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Jamaican oven baked jerk chicken is spicy, hot, mildly sweet, tender, juicy with crispy skin and packed full of flavour.
Prep Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine Caribbean, Jamaican
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 kg Chicken
  • 2 tablespoons chicken seasoning or any seasoning powder or cubes
  • 1 cup Jerk marinade sauce

Instructions
 

  • Cut chicken to the desired size, wash and pat dry.
  • Use a paring knife or fork to pierce the chicken pieces.
  • Place chicken in a large bowl and sprinkle chicken seasoning all over.
  • Pour 1 cup of jerk marinade all over the chicken, stir the chicken around to coat it well. Get the marinade into all the nooks and crannies of the chicken pieces and under the skin, best to use your hands.
  • Cover with plastic wrap or the bowl cover. You can also use a large freezer bag or put it directly on your baking sheet.
  • Place in the fridge to marinate for a minimum of 3 hours but best left overnight.
  • keep the remaining jerk marinade in the fridge for use in basting chicken halfway through.
  • Line a baking sheet with aluminium foil and set aside. Pre-heat oven to 180 deg. C
  • Place chicken pieces skin side up on the lined baking sheet.
  • Bake in the oven for 45 minutes, turn chicken pieces spread some jerk marinade on them.
  • Bake for a further 30 minutes until chicken is cooked.
  • The chicken juices should run clear when a knife tip is inserted into the flesh of the chicken and the meat is not pink or an internal temperature of 75 deg. C if using a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the chicken.
  • Boil down the remaining jerk marinade and serve as a dip.
  • Serve your delicious Jamaican oven-baked Jerk chicken with a sweet Beetroot coleslaw, it goes well with the spicy heat of the meat, Jamaican rice and peas, Johnny cakes, festival, cornbread etc. or serve with a drink like my Carrot-Orange drink, Virgin Pina Colada, Beetroot juice mocktail or Mango Lassi to help calm the heat.

Notes

  • Lining a baking sheet with aluminium foil makes cleaning up easy.
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