Smoked Jerk chicken

How to Cook Recipes Smoked Jerk chicken using 10 ingredients and 6 steps

Smoked Jerk chicken - With flavors from the Caribbean, this smoked Jamaican jerk chicken has flavor to spare. The wet jerk rub contains a Scotch bonnet pepper for extra flavor and zing. Use a cut up fryer chicken for this recipe. When the chicken is cut into pieces, more surface area is exposed for maximum flavor from the jerk. So "Smokin' Sundays" are definitely a thing in our household at this point.

A Jamaican might use up to a dozen in the following recipe; I suggest starting with three or four, and to make the jerk even milder, you can remove the seeds.

Jamaicans like their jerk chicken very well done—even leathery— recalling another smoked food native to the Americas: jerky.

You can cook Smoked Jerk chicken using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients cook Smoked Jerk chicken

1. You need 6 large garlic cloves.
2. It's Med white onion coarsely chopped.
3. It's 4 scotch bonnets (2 with seeds).
4. Prepare Bunch cilantro.
5. It's 1/2 cup brown sugar.
6. It's 1/2 cup soy sauce.
7. It's 1/2 cup lime juice.
8. You need 2 tbsp badia jerk seasoning.
9. You need 5-6 green onions.
10. Prepare 5 pound whole chicken.

Smoked Jerk chicken step by step

1. Process all and taste for seasoning and heat.
2. Spatchcock the chicken and split into 2 halves.
3. Loosen the skin and with a pairing knife poke holes or small slits through out the meat.
4. Cover the chicken with the marinade and rub under all the skin and massage it into the meat and let it marinate overnight.
5. Pull the chicken out and let sit at room temperature for about an hour. Remove the chicken from the marinade and wipe the marinade off the chicken, season the outside lightly with jerk seasoning (I lightly dust with cayenne as well because I like it hot).
6. Smoke at 275 for about 2 hours and then turn the heat up to 400 to crisp the skin. I serve it with cilantro yellow rice and beer braised black beans with a cilantro lime chimichurri and mango hot sauce.

Smoked Jerk chicken - In Jamaica, jerk chicken stands are on the roadside. The chefs typically use a steel drum that has been cut in half and turned into a big barrel style smoker grill. A Jamaican favorite, our Smoked Jerk Chicken is spatchcocked and marinated in a soy sauce and lime jerk marinade and slow smoked over pimento wood. It's full of flavor with Scotch bonnet peppers, cane sugar, fresh ginger and a hint of cinnamon. Dial the heat up or down with seeds from the Scotch bonnets. About the Cut: With BBQ/Grillign Season just around the corner, I thought I'd reflect back to last year's Annual July Month Of Grilling and share the printable recipe for outstanding Smoked Jerk Chicken! While I wish I had access to Pimento Wood as used in Jamaica, we found that soaked Apple-Wood gave the jerk chicken a wonderful fruity flavor which balanced the spiciness of the jerk marinade. Thank you and good luck