Love at first bite - Jamaican Beef Patties!
>> Saturday, 18 September 2010
I've been to Jamaica more than once but it was not in Jamaica that I had my first bite of their famous beef patties and fell in love, it was in Guyana, many years ago! But the patties were made by Jamaicans. They were sooooo good. The all-shortening pastry crust (aka flaky pastry) is one of the stars of this patty. You can see the flakes as the patty comes out of the oven.
Just as in the column, I don't want to spend a lot of time gushing about this amazing beef patty, click here and get the recipe and make some! If you do not eat beef, you can try this with lamb or even chicken and if you are vegetarian, then you can make a veggie filling. There are a variety of fillings in Jamaica too but the most popular patty is the beef patty. Get the recipe here.
This week on ABOUT.com, get those fruits blended and soaking in rum, Christmas is just around the corner. And, rum-soaked fruits are not just for Christmas cakes, find out other ways you can use it.
And now, enjoy the patties.
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Gorgeous patties! I really love that kind of food.
Cheers,
Rosa
OH my God! Delicious dear Cynthia! x gloria yummy!
Cynthis they look gorgeous. I love what we call pasties. I am intrigued though. I love making pastry and yours looks so perfectly flaky I just had to find how you made it. Here is what is puzzling me. Your instructions and weights appear to be how I make shortcrust pastry. Flaky pastry involves a great deal of rolling on this side of the pond. How on earth did you do it? What am I missing? They look sooooo good. I just love to find out other methods. :)
The only Jamaican beef patties I've ever had where part of a school lunch and man. They were NOT good.
These look fantastic though! Probably because they're actually made out of real ingredients. I definitely need to give them another go!
I have neve rhad jamaican patties they look so so good, should check out the recipe link.
I love the Jamaican patties too-I am partial to the veggie ones. Jamaican cuisine is wonderful and I am lucky to have a friend from there who cooks alot. His shrimps and rice and peas are the best.Fried fish phenonomenal and bush tea the best for what ails ya. Have a great week Cynthia.
Ooh, those look tasty!
Cynthia, Jamaican patties are pretty big up here and easily available...love them for a quick bite. Yours looks as good as in the shops.
Oooh now these patties take me back a few years - when I was much younger living in Tottenham (North London) my very first introduction to anything spicy was these Jamaican patties - although not as lovely looking as yours Cynthia.
We used to be able to buy them from the local 'chip shop'.....I loved them - from then on I was hooked on spicy food.
I have to have a go at making these!
LOVE Jamaican Beef Patties. Can't wait to try your recipe, girl! Much love!
Yummmmmm, they look very tasty. Makes me wanna run home and make some garam (hot) samosas!
that looks simple enough - no more buying beef patties for me - now about the coco bread.....?
Could certainly use a couple of these for breakfast this morning. Lovely pics as usual.
The beef patties look and sound delicious! I love flaky pastry btw though making it is always so messy (for me!)
Growing up , we were eating much more patties than we do now. There were very few options as far as snacks went and even fewer outlets so the choice was limited. Patties were very popular as a snack for children's birthday parties, college canteens and even office parties where the standard fare would be a cake and patties from the same bakery. The stuffing was usually vegetarian or chicken - some Parsi outlets sold amazing mutton patties.
With the burger chains and pizzas now, they seem to have faded into the background - what I loved most about them was the spice used for stuffing, it was a lovely tangy, spicy mix irrespective of whether it was vegetarian or not. Would love to recreate it at home - thanks for this!
I was just thinking about you and then there you were - stopping my my blog to say "hi"! And then I pop over here and get treated to some serious eye candy - these are just gorgoeuos!
I absolutely love patties be it beef, lamb, veg or saltfish I just can't enough of them.
For me the hotter the spice the nicer the patty!
By the way your patties look gorgeous
Just perfect! Similar to our chilean "empanadas", should try this recipe and compare tastes! big hugs my friend
Found your blog thanks to Jehan at Jehan Can Cook. Very happy to have stumbled upon this today.
A native Jamaican here! and I'm drooling at your post. Yum!
Those do look yummy! Can't get good beef where I'm at, but the lamb would make a good substitute I'm sure!
Wow Cynthia - do those look good! Nice balance between filling and crust.
LL
The pastry looks amazing! What a great recipe, Cynthia, and the pictures are wonderful.
I absolutely love patties. When I visit JA or the Cayman Islands, I always take frozen one home in my suitcase, to enjoy later. Thank you so much for the recipe. I will definately be making them and seeing if they are as good as the "originals". Keep supplying the great recipes - as a Jamerican :-) I enjoy them immensely.
Wow, they look delicious. I often stuff samosas with spicy meat filling and enjoy them along with tea.
Cynthis dear..this is such a mouth watering treat!!!
Your pictures are mouthwatering! That crust looks so incredibly flakey!
WOWEEEE! This is so up my street. I love this kind of food. I am so making this now. I have a fridge full of mince.... Deliclious!
I love them Jamaican beef patties. I tried this recipe and other recipes online but just can't seem to get it right. I am hoping buy "the" recipe for Jamaican beef patty. Please see more detail here http://jamaicanbeefpatty.wordpress.com/
Thank you :)
I made these patties tonight for dinner and made enough to take to work for lunch tomorrow. It was a bit tricky to make the dough since it's my first time to make Jamaican Beef Patty's, I made it in the food processor with the plastic attachment. Dough was too dry. I wish mine came out like yours! The meat filling was delish! Overall great recipe. Need to practice to perfect it like yours =)
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