Jamaican Turkey Meat Patties
Jamaican patty can be made with grounded chicken, grounded beef, grounded turkey or vegetable fillings seasoned with spices and is baked inside a flaky shell. Our patties are made like a turnover, but is more savory. Patty is Jamaicans fast food for lunch. It is usually found in other countries because of migration. Jamaicans likes to eat their patties with coco-bread. Patties usually comes in hot, medium and mild flavor. Very easy to make, try it !
Recipe:
Make about 14-15 Patties
Pastry:
1 lb flour = (3 1/2 cups baking flour or 4 cups all purpose flour ) depends on flour used
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup vegetable shortening or 1 cup butter
3/4 cup to 1 cup ice water
1 1/2 tsp turmeric
Filling:
1 lb ground beef (thawed out overnight in refrigerator). Chicken, turkey , beef or vegetables can also be used
2 stalks escallion (finely chopped)
2 tsp sugar
1 cups bread crumbs
1 tsps dried thyme
3 cloves garlic (finely chopped) or 1 tsp garlic powder
1 medium onion (finely chopped)
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp all purpose season or 1/2 tsp salt (not both)
1 tsp hot or medium Jamaican jerk paste seasoning (can also use 1/4 to 1/2 cayenne pepper chopped)
butter or oil for glazing
Pastry Making
(1) Sift flour, salt and baking powder (in a fine-mesh sieve). If you have no sieve, you can do without, but sifting make the flour lighter
(2) Mix in vegetable shortening or butter
(3) Add turmeric and ice water and hand mix in until ingredients is bound together in a firm dough, not sticky.
(3) Cover container with plastic wrap and put in refrigerator for about 30 minutes until ready to use
Filling:
(4) Take thawed out ground beef or (whatever meat used, must be grounded)
(5) Combine all ingredients except butter for glazing
(6) Properly mixed into meat
(7) Heat pot to medium hot and put meat in, use a fork to crush meat util there is no lump, meat should be finely separated
(8) Cook until soft for about 30 minutes on low heat (meat should not be dried out, add a little water if necessary)
(9) Add bread crumbs and mix in, make sure there is enough gravy to keep filling moist.
(10) Preheat oven to 350 degree
(11) Lightly sprinkle some flour on a clean board or countertop
(12) Remove flour dough from fridge, spread on board or countertop and roll out flat
(13) Make sure flour paste is smooth and flat without any cracks and about 1/4 inch thick
(14) Use a circular dish like a saucer of anything round that measures about 13 inches in diameter
((15) Each time you cut out pieces, set aside and combine all the wasted pieces and roll again until there is almost nothing of the dough left
(16) Take 2 tbsp of the ground cooked meat and put in the center of the round pieces of dough
(17) Fold each one over, until all the edges are together, then use a fork and press around the edge
(20) Glazed the patties with with some oil or butter and stick in the oven for about 35-45 minutes or until golden yellow
Please Note: Patties should be served hot. You can also use this recipe to make mini patties or cocktail patties for a party. Just make the portions much smaller.
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These patties taste really close to the ones from the store. I like that I’m able to use ground turkey instead of beef.