Jerk Chicken with Pimento and Scotch Bonnet

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:40:00 +0000

Real jerk chicken is cooked over pimento wood in a purpose-built pan or drum, the smoke from the wood itself as essential to the final flavour as anything in the marinade — allspice, after all, comes from the dried berries of that same pimento tree, so the wood and the spice are two expressions of one plant. Few home kitchens have a pimento log to hand, so this version does the honest thing: it leans hard on freshly ground allspice for the flavour the wood would otherwise carry, adds a genuine smoking stage using whatever hardwood chips are available, and finishes with a hot, direct char to mimic the blistered, sticky skin that defines a proper jerk pan. It won’t fool a Jamaican pitmaster, but it gets remarkably close for an oven and a grill.

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Jerk Chicken with Pimento and Scotch Bonnet