Jerk Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 onions, about 200g, roughly chopped
• 2 scotch bonnet peppers, seeded and roughly chopped
• 2 garlic cloves
• 4 cm piece gingerroot, roughly chopped
• 2 teaspoons fresh marjoram or 2 teaspoons fresh thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 120 ml cider vinegar
• 120 ml soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 4 chicken quarters
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 place the onions, chillies, garlic, ging sler and marjoram in a food processor and blitz until well blended. add the allspice, cider vinegar, soy sauce and honey and whizz again until smooth. add salt and pepper to taste.
• 2 deeply slash the chicken then place in a large, shallow dish. pour over the sauce and chill for 2-3 hours, or overnight.
• 3 preheat oven to 200 degrees centigrade. transfer the chicken to a rack and sit it inside a roasting tin. pour over the marinade and roast for 40-45 minutes, basting occasionally with the marinating juices in the roasting tin until cooked through and blackened.