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Summary
Let’s get a technicality out of the way: Classic jerk chicken is grilled over pimento wood (which comes from the tree that also produces allspice berries). If you want to order some online, we salute you. Everybody else: Hardwood or briquettes will have to do.
Ingredients
- 1 bunch chives, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 4–8 Scotch bonnet chiles or habanero chiles
- 5 garlic cloves, crushed
- 3/4 cup malt vinegar
- 3/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons Jamaican rum
- 2 tablespoons Diamond Crystal or 1 tablespoon Morton kosher salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 8 pieces skin-on, bone-in chicken legs (about 6 pounds total), drumsticks and thighs separated, patted dry
- Vegetable oil (for grill)
Instructions
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Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 8
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 27 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 0 g 0.35%
- Saturated Fat: 0 g 0.64%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 0 mg 0%
- Sodium: 3252 mg 135.49%
- Calcium: 9 mg 0.93%
- Potassium: 17 mg 0.49%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 0 mg 0.59%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 4 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 3.27%
- Sugar: 2 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Vitamin A 0.08%
- Vitamin C 11.37%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat0
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch0
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total0 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq