Jerk Frog Legs Recipe
Simple, flavorful and tasty mountain chicken
Equipment
- Barbecue grill
- Frying pan
- mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 2 lbs frog legs From your seafood market, or specialty market
- 3 tbsp jerk sauce Use the paste, and based on your spice tolerance. Cut jerk sauce in half
- 2 tbsp paprika divided in half
- 1 tbsp turmeric
- salt based on your tolerance
- tbsp black pepper
- 4 cloves garlic (crushed)
- ½ cup olive oil divided in half
- 3 branches thyme chopped
- ½ lemon
- Mango habanero BBQ sauce I used William Sonoma
Instructions
- Wash frog legs thoroughly with lemon
- Dry legs and place them in a large bowl
- Add all other ingredients except oil
- Marinate for 30 minutes
- Heat ¼ oil in a frying pan
- Add frog legs to pan for one minute on each side. Legs cook very quickly and could become fragile and dry.
- Remove from pan
- Created a wet rub with the other part of olive oil, paprika and jerk sauce
- Heat up grill to high temperature
- Place frog legs on grill
- Using a silicon brush, generously brush wet rub on legs
- Turn legs over with a tong after about 5 minutes, and brush rub on other side
- Remove from grill after a total of 10-12 minutes
- Enjoy with your favorite sauce. I used Mango Habanero from William Sonoma