Jerk Chicken Legs Recipe Oven
Grill until chicken is cooked through turning occasionally and reducing burning temperature slightly if it s browning too quickly about 30 minutes.
Jerk chicken legs recipe oven. Bake the chicken in a 375f oven until the chicken is cooked. Preheat a gas grill to medium high heat about 400 degrees clean grill grates and rub lightly with oil using tongs and an oiled paper towel. How to make jerk chicken. Bake chicken legs until cooked through and skin is crispy about 45 50 minutes rotate chicken half way through roughly 20 minutes.
Marinating the chicken will deepen the flavour of the jerk spices into the meat. Skin on or off it s up to you. How to grill jerk chicken. Cook through to 165 degrees.
This recipe needs to be marinating for at least 4 hours before cooking. The trick to making oven baked jerk chicken is to marinade it overnight then broil it in the oven for a crispy caramelized skin. Use a wire rack on top of the baking sheet if you have it as it helps in the cooking process and prevents the bottom of the chicken to burn on the baking sheet. Sweet from the molasses and spicy from the.
These jerk chicken wings were so flavorful so different and so additively delicious that i may have eaten my last buffalo wing. I leave the skin on. This recipe is adapted from oven baked jerk chicken recipe by immaculate bites. Scroll down to the recipe card for the detailed instructions.
It can be cooked in the oven or on the grill. I served these with caribbean rice and beans see recipe below which is also a recipe from immaculate bites. The flavor comes from the marinade which is the perfect combination of sweet and spicy. Bring the flavors of the caribbean to dinner.
In a small saucepan simmer the remaining jerk marinade and the one from the chicken for about 7 minutes. It s a lot easier to make jerk chicken at home than you think. Heat grill clean and oil grates. Make the jerk rub by combining the salt allspice brown sugar onion powder garlic nutmeg pepper ginger cayenne pepper cinnamon and thyme.
A perfect balance of sweet sour salty and spicy. You can also use chicken thighs or chicken legs possibly baking them for 5 10 minutes longer loosely cover the top with foil if you do bake them for longer.