Our Magic® Caribbean Jerk Seasoning blend delivers sweet and tangy flavors with a smoky nose and a mild heat finish. We combined 17 herbs and spices including nutmeg. allspice, and red pepper with lime and molasses to create this well-known flavor profile. Wonderful on chicken, beef, chops, fish and vegetables.

Jerk refers to a style of cooking in which the main ingredient - which most often is chicken but may also be beef, pork, goat, boar, seafood, or vegetables - is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; the resulting smoke is key to the ...

Jerk, as a stand-alone term, refers to the way in which meat is seasoned, smoked and grilled. Whereas a historical jerk seasoning recipe calls for bird peppers, pimento and pepper elder, modern recipes may include Scotch bonnet peppers, scallions, garlic, ginger, pimento, thyme and cinnamon.

Jerk chicken gets its distinguishable flavor from spices that are native to the island of Jamaica. Spices like the scotch bonnet pepper give jerk chicken its spicy kick. Other spices that are incorporated into a jerk recipe are allspice, ginger, garlic and thyme.

Ingredients In Jamaican Jerk Seasoning Spices – Cumin, nutmeg, allspice, smoked paprika, cinnamon. Heat – Red pepper flakes and cayenne pepper. Sugar – Just some brown sugar for a well rounded depth of flavor. Seasoning – Salt and pepper.

With a combination of scotch bonnet peppers, pimento (all spice), nutmeg, soy sauce and thyme amongst other seasonings, jerk sauce is JAMAICA in a bottle. You get hints of sweet, salty, lots of spicy and a kick of flavour that can only be described as “island-y”. You can use jerk sauce for a multitude of ways.

Etymology. The word jerk is said to come from charqui, a Spanish term of Quechua origin for jerked or dried meat, which eventually became the word jerky in English. The term jerk spice (also commonly known as Jamaican jerk spice) refers to a spice rub.

In physics, jerk (also known as jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s3 (SI units) or standard gravities per second (g0/s).

This seasoning blend is a fusion of everyday herbs and spices, like allspice, thyme and nutmeg, plus onions and Scotch bonnet peppers - even a little brown sugar. The seasoning delivers the lively flavor behind world-renowned jerk chicken.

jerk

1. a. : an annoyingly stupid or foolish person. was acting like a jerk. b. : an unlikable person.
2. a. : jolting, bouncing, or thrusting motions. b. : a tendency to produce spasmodic motions.
3. a. : an involuntary spasmodic muscular movement due to reflex action. b. jerks plural : involuntary twitchings due to nervous excitement.

Etymology. The word jerk is said to come from charqui, a Spanish term of Quechua origin for jerked or dried meat, which eventually became the word jerky in English. The term jerk spice (also commonly known as Jamaican jerk spice) refers to a spice rub.

A group of these slaves escaped into the mountains and were later named the Maroons. The Maroons would blend an array of spices and herbs that they would later use to marinate and cook the wild game they hunted. This led to the invention of the now famous “Jamaican Jerk”.

Traditional Jamaican Jerk is a method of cooking pork. Nowadays chicken, seafood or beef can be seasoned in this manner as well. Jerk is a complex blend of seasonings including scallions, onions, scotch bonnet peppers, salt, thyme, allspice, black pepper and many other spices.