One Pot Jamaican Jerk Chicken
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An easy one pot chicken dinner of oven roasted Jamaican Jerk chicken cooked on top of diced plantains, sweet potatoes, and apples.
I’ve been making a lot more internationally inspired dishes lately. This is usually how I have cooked but for some reason I had gotten away from it. Now that I’ve been cooking more diverse meals my family, and I, have been a lot more excited for dinner.
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This one pot dinner is a piece of cake to make. Dice all the vegetables and fruits, toss with olive oil, salt and pepper. Season the chicken and lay that over the top of the produce mix and stick it all in the oven. Easy peasy!
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Plantains
Plantains are in the same family as bananas, but they are less sweet and quite a bit starchier than bananas. They are very popular in tropical and Latin cuisines. The riper they become, which you can tell by how black their peel becomes, the sweeter they are.
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Other produce combinations for Jamaican Jerk chicken:
Some other good options for this dish are butternut squash, fresh pumpkin, and mangoes. You can serve this dish by itself or serve it atop rice if you need something else to go with it.
Also, if you desire, you could season the chicken and then brown it before adding it to the pot. I chose not to but that may just because I am lazy more so than anything else.
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One Pot Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Ingredients
- 2 lbs chicken breasts cut into 6 servings
- 2 Tbsp Jamaican Jerk seasoning
- 1 sweet potato diced
- 3 plantains diced
- 2 apples diced
- 1 red onion diced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 2 Tbsp olive oil extra virgin
- 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Place diced sweet potatoes, plantains, apples, onion, and garlic in dutch oven. Drizzle olive oil over the mixture. Season with salt and pepper and toss to coat.
- Season each chicken breast with 1/2 tsp of Jamaican Jerk seasoning on each side. Place chicken in dutch oven over the vegetable mix.
- Bake chicken and veggies for 30-35 minutes until chicken is cooked through and sweet potatoes are tender.
What a flavorful dinner and one pot meals are the best! This looks like a real winner!
Love one pot meals and I chose the same pan. Isn’t it wonderful?
It’s a beauty and definitely one of my new favorite pans!