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The Best Low Sodium Jerk Chicken #healthy #lowsodium #grilling #hackingsalt

The Best Low Sodium Jerk Chicken

Christopher Lower
Prep Time 1 day
Cook Time 3 hours
Total Time 1 day 3 hours
Course Main
Cuisine Jamaican
Servings 12 servings
Calories 112.8 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 C Peanut or corn oil
  • 1.5 C Scallions or leeks both white and green parts
  • 2 to 5 Habanero or Scotch Bonnet chilies seeded, minced
  • 3 cloves to 4 Garlic peeled, minced
  • 2 T Allspice berries crushed or 2 T fresh pimento
  • 6 leaves Pimento
  • 2 T Fresh thyme leaves or 1 t dried thyme
  • 1/4 C Cider vinegar or white vinegar
  • 3 T Salt Free Chicken stalk or the lowest sodium you can find
  • 1 T Salt Free Liquid Smoke
  • 2 T Lime juice
  • 1 T Dark molasses or 1 T Dark brown sugar
  • 2 t Freshly ground cinnamon approx. 1 stick
  • 1 T Fresh ginger peeled, minced or 1 t Ground ginger
  • 2 t Freshly ground nutmeg
  • 2 T Black pepper ground
  • 1 Red Stripe Beer one for basting and some for the Jerkmaster Grilling
  • 2 oz Dark rum
  • 2 Limes
  • 2 Whole Chicken

Instructions
 

  • Clean the Chicken
  • Cut the 2 limes in halves, rub the entire Chicken with the lime halves, squeezing the limes as you do to impart the juice onto the chicken.
  • Combine all of the ingredients from the oil to the rum into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
  • Rub the blended Marinade under the skin, then refrigerate the chicken overnight.
  • To Cook In The Oven:
  • Place Chicken on a Roasting Pan.
  • In a piece of foil, ad the pimento sticks, chips, or leaves and fold the foil into a packet.
  • Poke slits in the packet to allow the smoke to infuse the chicken and place the packet under the chicken in the bottom of the roasting pan.
  • Cook low and slow at 250-275 degrees 2.5-3 hours until juices run clear.
  • Use a meat thermometer to assure that meat is thoroughly cooked to 165 degrees F.
  • To Cook on the Grill:
  • Prepare your grill. Charcoal or gas will work just fine.
  • Soak Chips in water for at least 20 min.
  • Soak Leaves in water for 20 minutes
  • Soak Sticks in water for at least 20 min.
  • Use the offset cooking technique: Heat on one side of the grill and the meat on the other, that is the most important step to great Jerk grilling.
  • Wrap Chips in foil
  • Poke small hole for smoke to escape
  • Place directly on coals or on Gas burner or you can use a smoker box
  • Make a bed of leaves on the cool side of the grill
  • Place sticks on top of leaves
  • Place meat on sticks
  • More leaves can be put in a pan of water over heat
  • Cook 275 for 2.5 to 3 hours - Let’er smoke
  • Baste with Red Stripe Beer
  • Add another hand full of chips after 2 hours
  • Continue to cook until juices run clear.

Nutrition

Serving: 3oz.Calories: 112.8kcalCarbohydrates: 5.7gProtein: 5.5gFat: 6.6gSaturated Fat: 1.4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1.9gTrans Fat: 2.9gCholesterol: 13.9mgSodium: 114.5mgFiber: 1.5gSugar: 2.4g
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