Jamaican Beef Patties

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Jamaican Beef Patties are a specialty from Jamaica. These savory pastries are a popular street food and are often enjoyed as a snack or even a main meal. Beef patties consist of a crispy to flaky crust filled with a spicy filling.

The filling for Jamaican Beef Patties traditionally consists of minced meat, often beef, seasoned with onions, garlic, and a variety of Caribbean spices such as ginger, thyme, turmeric, and Scotch Bonnet pepper. These spices give the patties their characteristic aroma and pleasant heat. YARDIES Island Spice contains all the typical Jamaican spices.

The patty dough is often made from a simple shortcrust pastry, which is colored yellow with turmeric or food coloring to achieve an appealing golden color.

Jamaican Beef Patties are not difficult to make if you pay attention to a few things. For example, the fat content of the dough should always be at least 50% of the flour content. So if you make the dough with 200g of flour, 100g of fat should be added. Part of the fat is added in flakes to the dough when rolling it out, which ensures the flakiness that is traditionally found in Jamaican Beef Patties.

The following recipe for Jamaican Beef Patties will catapult you directly to Jamaica to Juici Patties without having to book a flight:

Ingredients for the dough
700g flour
350g butter - ice cold
1 tbsp curry powder e.g. YARDIES Jamaican Curry
1 tbsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
approx. 500ml ice water

Ingredients for the filling
700g ground beef
2-4 onions
2 carrots
1 bunch spring onions
6 cloves garlic
1 tbsp All Purpose Seasoning e.g. YARDIES Island Spice
1-2 tbsp Tropical Sun Brown Stew Marinade
1-2 tbsp Browning e.g. from Grace
approx. 250ml beef or vegetable broth
1/2 cup panko or breadcrumbs

Preparation
Knead all ingredients for the dough (with half of the butter) into a smooth dough and chill for approx. 1 hour. Place the other half of the butter in the freezer for 1 hour as well. During this time, prepare the filling.

Chop the vegetables. Fry the minced meat in a pan and gradually add the vegetables. Season with YARDIES Island Spice, Tropical Sun Brown Stew Marinade, and Browning. Add the beef broth and thicken with panko. Finally, lightly mash the filling with an immersion blender. The components of the filling should still be partially recognizable.

Roll out the dough into a rectangle. Grate the frozen butter into flakes on a four-sided grater. This works best when it is frozen, so it should be in the freezer. Place some of the butter flakes on the dough, fold the dough in half, and again place butter flakes on the dough. Continue this process until the dough is folded small and the butter is used up.

Roll out the dough again and cut out dough circles with a large cup, bowl, or similar. Place part of the ground beef mixture on one half of the dough circle, fold it together, and seal the edges with a fork.

Bake the patties in the oven at 220 degrees convection for approx. 20 minutes.