Boneless Chicken Recipe
Jerk Chicken Wrap
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This colorful jerk chicken recipe combines creamy with spicy, hot with cold and all kinds of flavors to make a really mouthwatering snack. This jerk chicken wrap is quite quick and easy to make and if you have some jerk seasoning to use, you should try this wonderful recipe for jerk chicken because you will not be disappointed with it. Street-side jerk pork and chicken stands are commonplace in Jamaica, as well as the Cayman Islands, and you can buy this tasty dish with deep fried flatbread, hard dough bread or fried dumplings. Now, with the help of this delicious Caribbean style wrap with jerk chicken, you can make your own version of this wonderful dish.
Tasty Jerk Chicken Wrap with Cream Cheese and Salsa
Jerk chicken dates back to the Carib-Arawak Indians who inhabited Jamaica many years ago. They would capture, clean and gut a chicken or pig and place it in a deep, stone-lined pit covered in green wood, which would burn and smoke a lot. The carcass was first "jerked" with something sharp to make holes and spices were placed in these holes. The holes were also to let heat escape without losing moisture.
Jerk chicken recipes like this recipe for jerk chicken are still popular today and this is one of the best chicken recipes for a lunchtime snack, with the cream cheese, chutney or salsa, jerk chicken and vegetables being in contrast with one another but complementing each other very nicely. Many people have never tried this delicious Jamaican food but if you are not keen on spicy flavors you might want to reduce the amount of jerk seasoning.
This recipe is made with jerk seasoning, mango salsa, lettuce, sweet pepper, cream cheese, and onion. It is a recipe that is rich in variety and the flavors work together really well. This makes a wonderful lunch, a light dinner, or a tasty supper snack. Jerk seasoning is made with cloves, scallions, cinnamons, salt, pepper, garlic, thyme, allspice, nutmeg and Scotch bonnet peppers (which are among the hottest peppers ever) so you only need a little to spice up your chicken. This seasoning can be used with tofu, fish, goat, shellfish and more and this type of cooking has a following in most major cosmopolitan urban centers in western Europe and also in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom - places where a number of people of Caribbean descent live.
Caribbean Style Wrap with Jerk Chicken and Sweet Pepper
Ingredients -
½ lb boneless, skinless chicken breast, in strips
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 thin slices red onion
¼ cup julienned sweet red pepper
2 lettuce leaves
¼ cup mango salsa or chutney
2 flour tortillas, 8 inches
¼ cup cream cheese, softened
¾ teaspoon Caribbean jerk seasoning
Preparation:
Sprinkle the chicken with ½ a teaspoon of jerk seasoning and cook it in a non-stick pan over a medium heat for 5 to 6 minutes or until the juices are clear.
Combine the cream cheese with the rest of the jerk seasoning and spread this over the tortillas.
Spread chutney or salsa whichever you prefer over the top.
Layer with lettuce, chicken, onion and sweet pepper.
Roll up tightly and serve.
(Serves 2)