Kelly’s Caribbean Chicken and Rice
Servings
4
Ready In:
1 hour
Course:
Main
Good For:
Dinner
Inroduction
About this Recipe
By: Christina Hills
The health aide, Kelly, who was helping my mother after her heart surgery, made this wonderful Caribbean meal for us!
You need to get the Jamaican Jerk sauce from the store, and you can get the spicy version or the hot version.
Ingredients Notes
Jerk Seasoning
Jerk Seasoning in a Jar
Scallion in the Rice
Fold and twist the scallion as shown
Foil covering the pot under the lid
Foil covering the pot under the lid
Stir the Rice often!
Rice cooking on stove
Here is the Recipe:
Kelly's Jerk Chicken
Equipment
- 1 Pan for baking in oven
- 1 Pot with Lid For cooking the rice and the sauce
Ingredients
Chicken Recipe
- 4-6 pieces Chicken thighs (1 package is usually 4 thighs)
- 1/2 bottle Jerk seasoning (Hot & Mild)
- 1 Lime or Lemon
- 3 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 shake Onion Powder
- 1 shake Paprika
- 1 shake Black Pepper
- 1 pinch Salt to taste
- 1 gallon ziplock bag
Rice Recipe
- 1.25 Cup Any kind of rice
- 1 Can Red Beans
- 1 Can Coconut Milk
- 1/2 Red or Yellow Onion diced into small pieces
- 2 whole Green Onions don't cut up
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- to taste Salt & Pepper
Extra Sweet Sauce Recipe
- 1-2 tbsp Jerk seasoning
- 2-3 tbsp Ketchup
- 1/4 cup Water
- 2-3 tbsp Brown sugar (you can use honey too)
Instructions
Chicken Recipe
- Put the chicken in a bowl with cold water and wash chicken with the lime or lemon juice after cutting out any unwanted fat from the chicken
- Then season with all the above ingredients. Let it sit for about 1-2 hours (note the longer the better so it can be overnight) in the fridge in a ziplock bag and massage all the seasonings till all the meat is coated with all the seasonings.
- Coat the pan with some oil first. cover the pan with foil. Cook the chicken in an oven at 350 deg for 45 min. Check it for doneness
- After after 45 min raise the temp to 375 and remove the foil and cook more for 10-15 min max to get some color.
Rice Recipe
- Take the rice and put in a bowl with cold water to wash it, and rince with a strainer. Then repeat that again.
- Add oil to pot and cook diced red onion for 2-3 minutes
- Add in the beans with their water and cook for 5 minutes medium heat.
- When it bubbles, add in your washed rice follow with your can of coconut milk and add salt and pepper with 2 tespoons of butter
- Stir all and cover with foil and then a lid for the pot and cook for 20-25 minutes on very low heat!
- Every 5 min, check the rice and stir the pot so it does not stick to the bottom
Extra Sweet Sauce Recipe
- While the rice is cooking, mix the jerk seasoning, the ketchup, and brown sugar in a pan.
- Taske and adjust sugar if too spicy
- cook on stove top till it bubbles (5-8 min max) and is thick
- let cool in pan
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