Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe

Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe is a complete meal in itself that includes chicken that's served on a bed of rice. A perfect weekend meal to serve to your family.

Shaheen Ali
Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe
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Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe is a Caribbean dish made with roasted chicken on rice pilaf.

Chicken is oven roasted with spices. The mildly spiced rice pilaf is made with peas and then the jerk chicken is served placed on top of the rice pilaf, with a dash of lemon juice on top. This recipe is so filling and is a one pot dish to make. Since roasting is done in oven, it is an easy chicken recipe to make.

Serve Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe for a lip smacking Sunday lunch along with a Cucumbertini Recipe followed by Fig Tiramisu With Gingerbread Dust Recipe as dessert. 

Here are a few more exotic main course meal that you can also try for house parties

  1. Chickpea & Date Tagine Recipe
  2. 15 minute Cauliflower Fried Rice Recipe
  3. Mediterranean Dajaj Mechwi Recipe
  4. Greek Style Gigantes Plaki Recipe (Oven Baked Broad Beans with Vegetables Recipe)

Note: You can also replace the green peas with kidney beans.

Cuisine: Caribbean
Course: Main Course
Diet: High Protein Non Vegetarian
Prep in

20 M

Cooks in

45 M

Total in

65 M

Makes:

2 Servings

Ingredients

    For Jerk Chicken:
  • 1 kg Chicken , (thigh and drumstick)
  • 2 tablespoons Oil
  • 1 Barbeque sauce , or bottle jerk barbecue sauce
  • Spring Onion (Bulb & Greens) , a bunch, fine sliced
  • 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
  • For Rice & Peas Pilaf:
  • 250 grams Basmati rice
  • 1 cup Green peas (Matar)
  • 1 cup Coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup Spring Onion (Bulb & Greens) , finely chopped
  • 1 sprig Fresh Thyme leaves
  • 2 cloves Garlic , fine chopped
  • 1 Bay leaf (tej patta)
  • 1 teaspoon All spice powder

How to make Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe

  1. To begin making Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Recipe, pre heat oven at 200 degree C.

  2. Take oil in a roasting pan and heat in oven for 5 minutes. Take out the pan carefully & add the chicken pieces.

  3. Place the tin inside the oven and roast it for 6-8 mins till brown from all sides.

  4. Carefully pour the barbecue sauce all over the browned chicken and scatter over the sliced spring onions.

  5. Roast the chicken in the oven for 20 mins, turn it occasionally so that it gets nice and sticky.

  6. Meanwhile, to make the rice & peas pilaf.

  7. In a pan add 2 cups of water, coconut milk, spring onions, thyme, garlic, bay leaf, allspice powder and some salt to taste and bring it to a boil.

  8. Add rice and peas into it and simmer for 10 mins.

  9. Cook the rice till it is tender and turn off the heat.

  10. Drain and collect the rice and peas and serve with Jerk Chicken topped on Rice And Peas pilaf recipe with a generous squeeze of lemon.

  11. Serve Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe for a lip smacking Sunday lunch along with a Cucumbertini Recipe followed by Fig Tiramisu With Gingerbread Dust Recipe as dessert.