Jamaican Beef Patties Recipe

Experience the exotic and mouth-watering flavours of Jamaica with this recipe for Jamaican Beef Patties. The fresh flavours of the thyme and escallion combined with the paprika that adds a spicy hit of flavour to the juicy, tender beef.

Ingredients

2 lbs. ground beef

½ teaspoon Accent

8 sprigs of thyme

2 oz. escallion or (1 green onion)

2 small hot peppers

3 teaspoons paprika

half a loaf French bread

1 teaspoon salt

Method

1. Grind the escallion and hot peppers in a mincing mill. Add to ground beef with salt.
2. Place meat in a saucepan, making a well in the centre into 4 sprigs of thyme.
3. Cook without adding any water or fat until the meat has lost its broth and the only certain amount of oil remains.
4. Pour off excess oil and add this to the paprika to be used later on, as strained for colouring meat.
5. While meat is being cooked, pour sufficient cold water over bread in a saucepan to cover and soak for a few minutes, then squeeze dry, saving water.
6. Pass bread through the mincing mill and return the ground bread and water with 4 sprigs of thyme and cook until bread is dry. Combine meat and cooked bread.
7. Add paprika with sufficient quantity to colour the meat to taste.
8. Cook together for a further 20 minutes; add Accent.
9. Remove from fire. Cool for filling pastry circles. Serve hot with other dishes and enjoy your Jamaican beef patties.

The majority of the ingredients in this recipe are available in our store, please head in to see us and we would be glad to help you put this delicious meal together.