Category Archives: Jamaican

Jerk chicken

16Jan

I tried jerk chicken for the first time in the US and, like how I first felt with Mexican(TexMex) food, was disappointed with it. So, when I saw a very popular Jamaican restaurant here in Playa, I didn’t bother to try. But then, my friend Juan cooked some jerk chicken at our house not too long ago and it...

Jerk

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04Mar

Jerk is a style of cooking Jamaican food when the meat is rubbed with a dry set of spices and herbs or meat marinated in a liquid marinade with a set of very hot Jamaican spice. The basic ingredients includes 'allspise' and very sharp Caribbean red pepper (Scotch Bonnet), which can be substituted in this...