Are the ingridients in jerk chicken unhealthy?
Not at all (although it depends how much oil is used). In this recipe there’s only 1 tablespoon of oil and the rest is simply chicken, spices and vegetables: Ingredients 2 chickens For the marinade: 1 tbsp allspice berries, freshly ground 3 Scotch bonnet peppers 2 bunches of Spring onions, chopped 2 Onions, chopped 2 garlic clove, chopped 2.5 cm fresh ginger root 1 bunch of Thyme, chopped 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp water 1 tsp Sugar 1 tsp Salt freshly ground black pepper Method 1. Using a food processor or a pestle and mortar, blend or crush the allspice berries, Scotch bonnet peppers, spring onions, onion, garlic, ginger, thyme, oil, water, sugar, salt and freshly ground pepper into a paste. 2. Toss the chicken quarters thoroughly with the marinade. Cover and marinate overnight in the refrigerator. 3. Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas 6 or heat a barbecue to cooking point. If using the oven, preheat a griddle pan until hot. Brown the chicken quarters on the griddle pan, transfer to a roa
