Jerk Chicken, a Healthy Convenience Foods

Bring your Healthy Convenience Foods with a great jerk chicken recipe from James Martin. It's hot and sour with plenty of Scotch bonnet chillies. Serve with rice and peas.

Ingredients

6 chicken breasts, or chicken thighs, bones removed

For the sauce

225g/8oz onions, quartered

1-1½ Scotch bonnet chillies according to taste, halved and seeded

50g/2oz root ginger, peeled and chopped roughly

½ tsp ground allspice

small bunch fresh thyme, leaves only

1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

120ml/4fl oz white wine vinegar

120ml/4fl oz dark soy sauce

To serve

rice and peas

1 pineapple, peeled, cored and cut in wedges

4 limes, 3 cut in wedges, 1 juice only

Method

1. Put all the ingredients for the Jerk Sauce in a food processor and whiz until smooth.
2. Place the chicken in a large shallow dish, pour over the sauce, cover and leave to marinate in the fridge overnight.
3. On a hot griddle cook the chicken for 25-30 minutes, basting now and then with the leftover sauce. As it cooks, the thick sauce will go quite black in places, but don't worry, as it falls off it will leave behind a really well flavoured, crisp skin, with lovely moist tender meat underneath.
4. Brush the pineapple lightly with oil and char grill until golden brown on all sides. Squeeze over the juice of one lime.
5. Serve the jerk chicken with the rice and peas, pineapple and wedges of lime on the side. of this Healthy Convenience Foods.

Inspired from https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/jerkchicken_10680