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What Is Jamaican Jerk?
Jerk is a Jamaican cooking method and a seasoning, built on pimento, scotch bonnet, thyme and scallion, and cooked slowly over live coals so smoke becomes part of the flavour.
Seasoning and method, together
Jerk is two things at once: a seasoning built on pimento (allspice), scotch bonnet, thyme, scallion and ginger, and a way of cooking slowly over live coals so smoke becomes part of the flavour. Take away the smoke and you have seasoned chicken.
How it should taste
Warm and aromatic before it is hot. Allspice and thyme first, then the pepper. Heat without that aromatic base is just spice.
A note on pork
Jerk Harbour does not serve pork. We cook chicken and wings only.
Taste it for yourself
We cook over live charcoal in East Legon, Accra, every day we are open.
Keep reading
- Jerk Chicken in AccraChicken marinated for 48 hours in pimento, scotch bonnet, thyme and scallion, then cooked over live charcoal to order in East Legon.Read
- What Is Scotch Bonnet?The fruity, floral chilli behind Jamaican heat, and why it is not interchangeable with other peppers.Read
- What Is Pimento (Allspice)?One berry that tastes of several spices at once, and the backbone of Jamaican cooking.Read