Marcus Samuelsson’s Whole Roast Jerk Chicken

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
Today Loves Food: Recipes from America’s Favorite Kitchen

By The Today Show

Published 2025

  • About

As the saying goes, “If you love someone, roast them a chicken; if you burn for them, roast them a jerk chicken.” We may or may not have just made up that saying, but we do believe it. A perfectly golden-skinned bird is a romantic gesture on its own, but adding Marcus’s Jamaican jerk marinade—a tantalizing mixture of cilantro, scallions, ginger, garlic, Scotch bonnet pepper, soy sauce, lime j