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Jerk (cooking)

Index Jerk (cooking)

Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice. [1]

46 relations: Allspice, Bammy, Beef, Brown sugar, Canada, Cayman Islands, Ch'arki, Chicken as food, Cinnamon, Clove, Cooking, Coromantee, Dumpling, Fire pit, Fish as food, Fodor's, French West Indies, Garlic, Ginger, Hard dough bread, Invasion of Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaican cuisine, Jerky, Johnnycake, Lamb and mutton, List of chicken dishes, List of Jamaican dishes and foods, Meat, Nutmeg, Pork, Quechuan languages, Salt, Sausage, Scallion, Scotch bonnet, Shellfish, Shrimp, Spice, Spice rub, Taíno, Thyme, Tofu, United Kingdom, United States, Vegetable.

Allspice

Allspice, also called pimenta, Jamaica pimenta, or myrtle pepper, is the dried unripe fruit (berries, used as a spice) of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.

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Bammy

Bammy or bami is a traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread descended from the simple flatbread eaten by the Arawaks, Jamaica's original inhabitants.

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Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle.

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Brown sugar

Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea.

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Ch'arki

Ch'arki (Quechua for dried, salted meat, Hispanicized spellings charque, charqui, charquí) is dried and salted meat common in South America, originally llama, nowadays mostly horse and beef.

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Chicken as food

Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world.

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Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum.

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Clove

Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum.

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Cooking

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption.

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Coromantee

Coromantee, Coromantins, Coromanti or Kormantine (derived from the name of the Ghanaian slave fort of Fort Kormantine in Koromanti, GhanaCrooks, John Joseph (1973), Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874 (London: Taylor & Francis), p. 62..) was the English name originally given to enslaved people from Akan ethnic groups from the Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana.

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Dumpling

Dumpling is a broad classification for a dish that consists of pieces of dough (made from a variety of starch sources) wrapped around a filling or of dough with no filling.

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Fire pit

A fire pit or a fire hole can vary from a pit dug in the ground to an elaborate gas burning structure of stone, brick, and metal.

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Fish as food

Many species of fish are consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.

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Fodor's

Fodor's is a publisher of English language travel and tourism information and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks.

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French West Indies

The term French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises) refers to the seven territories currently under French sovereignty in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean.

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Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the onion genus, Allium.

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Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine.

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Hard dough bread

Hard dough bread, also called hardo bread, is a Jamaican bread similar to the Pullman loaf or pain de mie, although hard dough bread tends to be sweeter.

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Invasion of Jamaica

The Invasion of Jamaica was an amphibious expedition conducted by the English in the Caribbean in 1655 that resulted in the capture of the island from Spain.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jamaican cuisine

Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, flavours, spices and influences from the indigenous people on the island of Jamaica, and the Spanish, Irish, British, Africans, Indian and Chinese who have inhabited the island.

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Jerky

Jerky is lean meat that has been trimmed of fat, cut into strips, and then dried to prevent spoilage.

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Johnnycake

Johnnycake (also called journey cake, shawnee cake or johnny bread) is a cornmeal flatbread.

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Lamb and mutton

Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages.

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List of chicken dishes

This is a list of chicken dishes.

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List of Jamaican dishes and foods

This is a list of Jamaican dishes and foods.

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Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.

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Nutmeg

Nutmeg is the seed or ground spice of several species of the genus Myristica.

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Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

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Quechuan languages

Quechua, usually called Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America.

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Salt

Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.

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Sausage

A sausage is a cylindrical meat product usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef, or veal, along with salt, spices and other flavourings, and breadcrumbs, encased by a skin.

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Scallion

Scallions (green onion, spring onion and salad onion) are vegetables of various Allium onion species.

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Scotch bonnet

Scotch bonnet, also known as bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers, is a variety of chili pepper named for its resemblance to a tam o' shanter hat.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a food source and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Shrimp

The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.

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Spice

A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food.

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Spice rub

Spice rub is any mixture of ground spices that is made for the purpose of being rubbed on raw food before the food is cooked.

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Taíno

The Taíno people are one of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.

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Thyme

Thyme is an aromatic perennial evergreen herb with culinary, medicinal, and ornamental uses.

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Tofu

Tofu, also known as bean curd, is a food cultivated by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(cooking)

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