Jerk Chicken, Potato Bombs, and ABT's

[Old Dave]

This cook was done on my Weber Jumbo Joe kettle running a split fire (direct & indirect)  using lump charcoal with a fist sized chunk of hickory for my smoke wood.



I prepped 4 chicken legs, 3 chicken thighs, and one chicken breast which I cut into 2 pieces with my favorite jerk chicken marinade recipe and placed them into the fridge for an overnight stay.

The potato bombs were prepped by using and apple corer to take a plug out of the middle of the potato. I then used the same corer to take some plugs out of a couple of cheese blocks for my filling. Placed the cheese inside the potatoes, cut the plug I removed from the potato down to about 1/2" long to plug the bottom of the potato and then brushed on some peanut oil. Next step was to sprinkle on some sea salt, granulated garlic, and some black pepper and then wrapped them in bacon and used a toothpick to hold the bacon in place.

I prepped about 14 ABT's with some smoked shredded chuck roast, cream cheese, SGH rub, and a bacon wrap. I figured I would be short on room so I had the Wife do most of them in the oven. I did get 4 of them into the kettle later into my cook.







Poured in a full chimney of lump and got my fire ready for the meat.

I started my chicken pieces over a very hot direct fire to give them some char marks and blacken them up a little. I then placed them on the indirect part of the cooker to finish them up.





I took the Wife's chicken off the cooker when it was done and I started my very hot jerk glaze to my pieces to finish them up.





The results of my cook looked good.







Plated for serving....made a nice meal. I used that very hot 3 alarm cheese from Sam's Club in my potato bomb and it was great.

[JDLones]

Jeez, I want to come to your house. Excellent cook!


Jonathan

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[WNC]

Awesome cook, looks great!
That's a lot of food for a jumbo joe, nice job!

[1911Ron]

Excellent looking cook!

[austin87]

Lots going on for one 18" cooker! If you get a chance would you mind posting your jerk marinade? I've been looking for a good hot one for a while.

[feeshrman]

That looks great! Gonna try me some of those 'taters

[Uncle Al]

Man that looks fantastic!

[Old Dave]

austin87,

Here you go....

Old Dave's Jerk Chicken Recipe from my blog


Ingredients for the basic Jerk Chicken recipe. For 7-9 pieces of chicken.

Marinade

3-4 green onions (diced)
1-2 Habanero Peppers (diced)
3 large cloves of garlic (chopped)
1/3 of a medium size onion (chopped)
1 TBL fresh thyme leaves
1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 3 limes)
2 TBL soy sauce
3 TBL olive oil
1 TBL salt
1 TBL brown sugar
1 TBL Jerk Seasoning
2 tsp fresh cracked black pepper

Combine all the ingredients into a blender and puree until smooth.

This is all that is needed for a great tasting jerk chicken.

Here is what I used to heat it up to suit me.

Final Glaze

3-4 green onions
4 cloves of garlic
3 habanero peppers
1 TBL minced fresh thyme
1 TBL Jamaican jerk seasoning
2 limes juiced
1/2 cup hot ketchup
1/2 cup pineapple juice

As above, place all ingredients into a blender and pulse a few times but do leave it a little chunky.

Place the chicken into a gallon size freezer bag and pour the marinade over it and fridge for about 10-12 hours. The chunky glaze also goes into the fridge for the chili-heads.