Jerk chicken with rice & peas

Name: Jerk chicken with rice & peas
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 12 chicken thighs; ½ lime; 1 bunch green onions; 1 tbsp ginger; 3 cloves garlic; ½ onion; 3 red chiles; ½ tsp thyme; Juice of 1 lime; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 3 tbsp brown sugar; 1 tbsp allspice; 7 oz basmati rice; 14 oz coconut milk; 1 bunch green onions; 2 sprigs thyme; 2 cloves garlic; 1 tbsp allspice; 1.8 lb kidney beans

A weekend Jamaican dinner. Ready in about 2 hours 50 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

20 minPrep (about)
2 hr 30 minCook (about)
2 hr 50 minTotal time
4Servings
More effortDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 13 people +

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Main ingredient

39 chicken thighs

Fresh & other

1 ⅔ limes
3 bunches green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
3 ½ tbsp ginger
10 cloves garlic
1 ⅔ onions
10 red chiles Shopping tip: Fresno or red jalapeño for mild (seeds out); Thai bird's eye for hot.
Juice of 1 lime
½ cup + 2 tbsp brown sugar
1.4 lb basmati rice
2.9 lb coconut milk
3 bunches green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
7 sprigs thyme Shopping tip: Fresh sprigs or dried both work (1 tsp dried = 1 tbsp fresh).
7 cloves garlic
5.7 lb kidney beans

Sauces & oils

⅓ cup + 1 tbsp soy sauce
⅓ cup + 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Spices & seasonings (3): thyme, allspice, allspice

1 ¾ tsp thyme Shopping tip: Dried thyme is fine here.
3 ½ tbsp allspice
3 ½ tbsp allspice

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

To make the jerk marinade, mix all your ingredients in a food processor along using 1 tsp salt.
Blend to a purée.
If you’re having getting it to blend, keep turning off the blender, and trying again.
Stir the mixture.
It will start.
Blend up – don’t be tempted.
Add water, as you want thick paste.
Taste the jerk mix for seasoning – it should pretty salty, but not unpleasantly, puckering salty, throw.
Do it in more chillies if ’s not spicy enough for you.
If it tastes too salty plus sour, try adding in bit more brown sugar till the mixture tastes well balanced.
Make some slashes in the chicken thighs.
Pour your marinade over the meat, rubbing it in all the crevices.
Cover.
Leave to marinate overnight in the fridge.
If you want to barbecue chicken, get your coals burning 1 hr so before you’re ready to cook.
To get a more authentic jerk experience.
Add some wood chips to your barbecue.
Heat chicken.
Do it over slow, indirect heat for 30 mins.
To cook in the oven.
Heat to 350°F (325°F for a fan oven).
Put the chicken bits in a roasting tin using the lime halves.
Cook for 45 mins until soft and cooked through.
While your chicken is cooking, prepare the rice & peas.
Rinse your rice in plenty of cold water.
Tip it into a large pot with all the rest of the ingredients except the kidney beans.
Season with salt.
Add 1 ¼ cups cold water.
Set over a high heat.
Wait until the rice begins to boil.
Turn it down to medium heat, cover.
Cook for 10 mins.
Add the beans to the rice.
Cover with a lid.
Leave off the heat for 5 mins till all the liquid is absorbed.
Squeeze the roasted lime over the chicken.
Dish up using your rice & peas, plus some hot sauce if you like it spicy.