Pickapeppa Sauce
One of the dishes I will be cooking with the “guys” tonight includes this insanely easy recipe. I discovered Pickapeppa sauce over 15 years ago when a caregiver at my child’s daycare center made Jerk Chicken from her “secret recipe”. I would re-schedule some of my dental patients on the days it was served and sneak on over to the center for some of Marlene’s amazing chicken. It took me more than 4 years to convince Marlene to divulge that recipe. When she did, she just chuckled in her beautiful Jamaican accent- “Susan, it’s just Pickapeppa!”
Pickapeppa Sauce is an authentic sauce made in Jamaica that contains real ingredients-ones you can pronounce with a 3rd grade reading level. Its found in the hot sauce section of most supermarkets it’s spicy but definitely not “hot”.
“Pickapeppa” Jerk Chicken
8 chicken legs or breasts
1 bottle Pickapeppa Sauce
2 medium onions sliced
2 teaspoons dried thyme ( or any other herb you like)
24-36 hours before: Place the chicken legs in a roasting pan, cover with Pickapeppa sauce, cover with foil and refrigerate.
Prepping my pickapeppa chicken the night before.
Add sliced onions over top of chicken sprinkle with thyme
Put pan of chicken into a 350 oven for 45 minutes with foil lightly on top.
Take foil off and cook for an additional 15 minutes.
Serve over rice or quinoa
Note: you can also add sliced carrots, potatoes and sweet potatoes or any other veggie you like to the roasting pan and make this a one-dish dinner.
Make EXTRAS, this is an excellent leftover dish!
