Dimples’ Barbecued Chicken

Jamaica

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2 to 4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

  • About

Jerk, especially jerk pork, is so famous in Jamaica, it’s easy to forget that the island has other barbecued dishes. Among them is this incredibly flavorful, fall-off-the-bone-tender chicken, which I enjoyed by flickering torchlight at a riverside eatery called Boar Hill outside Kingston. The chef, although she would blush to be identified as such, was a pretty, short, shy woman named Fastina Sherman. Compliment her on her cooking, or simply ask her a question, and she woul