Jerk Chicken light or dark meat (ingredients, chicken breast, ginger, onion)
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Last month's BHG had a recipe for jerk chicken which I want to try soon. They suggested only DARK meat for the chicken but I prefer white. Any thoughts?
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Personal preference, but to me, dark meat is the best unless it's being used in a dish with a lot of sauces to keep it moist and add flavor. White meat is more bland and dry. For Jerk Chicken I would use drumsticks and thighs, but yes, if you prefer white meat, go ahead and used breast. My favorite recipe for white meat chicken is Fiesta Cheese Chicken:
Brown chicken breasts cut in half, in oil
Add 1 can Campbell's Condensed Fiesta Nacho Cheese Soup, 1 whole white onion, peeled and sliced, 1 small can chopped fire roasted tomatoes.
Cover and cook until chicken is done, about 1/2 hour
Remove the chicken to oven to stay warm
Add to cheese sauce 1/2 cup sour cream and stir in well, put heat on lowest setting
If you like the white meat, use that. It's lower in fat, so it might be possible that some added fat is necessary, but I couldn't even guess without seeing the recipe.
The recipe involves whirling all the ingredients in a blender the baking then broiling for ten min. If I can find a way to upload it I will.
Thighs won't get dry and stringy like breasts sometimes do. If they are cooked any length of time, that's why they suggested thighs. My DH used to only want chicken breasts, but then he started eating thighs and now he's a convert and prefers the thighs.
Use a whole chicken, season liberally and you tell us what your favorite part was.
That's far more economical to buy a whole chicken at ($0.89-$1.99/pound)
than to buy geometrically perfect, skinless, boneless cuts soaked in a saline solution so they look artificially plump at ($4.99-$5.99/pound)
then hear your family complain ("I dont like the breasts, they're too dry") ("drumsticks too much cartilage") ("thighs too fatty") if you buy pre-processed parts. I just buy the whole chicken and let the people pick their own.
I love jerk chicken, marinate it long, smoke/grill outdoors rather than bake if you can, make sure your limes are fresh and zest them peels too. side of black beans + coconut rice, mango or pineapple based dessert. Reeds or Bundaberg (non-alc) ginger beer for the kids and Red Stripe beer for the adults.
Thanks, everyone, for your input. Think I'll try a little of both.
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