Shredded Jerk Chicken with Pineapple Avocado Salsa
Slow cooker Jamaican jerk pulled chicken with a sweet and spicy salsa.
servings: 4
total time: 3 hours
recipe by: Frankie
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP cooking oil
- 8 bone-in skin-on chicken thighs
- salt & pepper
- 8 bread rolls or buns (optional)
- Jerk sauce:
- 4 green onions, trimmed and chopped
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 TBSP distilled white vinegar
- 2 TBSP honey
- 3 Scotch bonnet or habanero chiles, stemmed and chopped
- 1 TBSP fresh minced ginger
- 1 TBSP ground allspice berries
- 1 TBSP fresh thyme leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup (3 to 4 ounces) fresh chopped pineapple
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 4 medium garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
- Pineapple Avocado Salsa
- 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) fresh diced pineapple
- 1 medium avocado, halved, pitted and diced
- 1/2 cup finely diced onion
- 1 TBSP finely diced jalapeno
- 1 TBSP lime juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
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Directions
- Puree all the jerk sauce ingredients together in a blender.
- Dry the chicken thighs with paper towels and generously season with salt and pepper on both sides.
- Heat the oil in a large pan over high heat until it begins to smoke. Working in batches, sear the chicken, skin-side down, for 5 minutes then flip and cook 4 more minutes.
- Place the seared chicken thighs skin-side up in the slow cooker and pour the jerk sauce over top.
- Cover the slow cooker and cook on low for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
- Turn off the slow cooker and carefully remove the chicken thighs to a plate, discard the skin and bones, shred the chicken with two forks and then stir back into the jerk sauce.
- Mix the salsa ingredients together in a bowl and serve with the chicken.
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