Jerk Chicken With Rice And Peas Pilaf Recipe

Ingredients

• 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
• 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

Steps

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.