This image courtesy of Joseph DeLeo
Vegetable patties are no longer the ubiquitous “patty” identified to Jamaicans. But over most up-to-date years, they’ve change into standard all the way by Jamaica. The fillings vary vastly amongst cooks, so be certain to make exhaust of poetic license when growing your absorb.
A favored route between Ocho Rios and Kingston is Fern Gully (a four-mile expanse of road that was on the origin a riverbed), the place tall walls of vegetation characteristic over six hundred species of the most attention-grabbing kinds of ferns in all sizes and shapes. Along the hasten is a roadside food cease identified as Faith’s Pen, a instant-food “provider predicament,” Jamaican fashion. What started as a congregation of roadside huts has been organized by the authorities into a row of magnificent wooden constructions with sparkling indicators asserting their names and specialties much like Ackee and Salt Fish and Jerk Rooster. It’s home to the on the entire-mentioned Ragamuffin “Roots Tonic” juice bar, a fastidiously magnificent operation full with new juice, intercourse tonics and a real collection of reggae dub tune.
At Rose’s Hot Space, a Rastaman quietly and methodically prepares and cooks amazing vegetable patties. With any luck, he’d approve of the next approximation, which bakes in design of fries the patties.
NotesExisting on Vegetable Patties
Again as appetizers by making them runt size.
Makes18 Patties (6 to 9 servings; 2 per particular person for lunch)
Cooking MannerBaking
ValueCheap
Manufacture Forward RecipeYes
OccasionCocktail Birthday celebration, Game Day
Recipe PathHors D’oeuvre, Main Path
Dietary ConsiderationLow-rotund, Peanut Free, Soy Free, Tree Nut Free, Vegetarian
MealLunch, Snack
Taste and TextureStunning, Spiced
Substances
- 2½ cups all-cause flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons curry powder
- ½ cup butter (1 stick)
- ¾ cup ice-wintry water
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tiny yellow onion, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1 pound pumpkin, peeled and chopped (about 2½ cups)
- 1½ cups water
- ¼ head cabbage, shredded (about 1½ cups)
- 1 medium-size potato, diced
- 1 carrot, diced
- ½ chocho (chayote), peeled, pitted and diced (no longer compulsory)
- 1 entire Scotch bonnet pepper (inexperienced commended)
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly floor dusky pepper
- 1 egg, beaten with 1 teaspoon water
Instructions
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To originate the pastry, mix the flour, salt, baking powder and curry powder in a immense mixing bowl. Lower the butter into tiny pieces and add to the bowl. Working immediate and the exhaust of your fingertips, squeeze the flour mixture and butter together and toss it by scooping below the aggregate with each and every fingers. When the aggregate resembles a truly indecent meal, add the water to the bowl.
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With floured fingers, mix and squeeze the dough factual until it varieties a ball. Knead it just a few times to mix it fully (the much less kneading, the simpler). Separate the dough into 2 pieces, knocking down every into a thick pancake; wrap the pieces in plastic, and place them within the refrigerator to take a seat back for as a minimum 15 minutes. (The dough will retain within the refrigerator up to 5 days. Exercise away it from the refrigerator 30 minutes sooner than the exhaust of it.)
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For the filling, heat the oil in a immense skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and onion, stirring constantly for 30 seconds. Add the curry powder and cook dinner for 2 minutes, persevering with to hasten and spot the backside of the pan. (Operate no longer burn!)
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Add the pumpkin and 3/4 cup of the water and mix it well with the curry mixture. Veil the skillet and decrease the heat to low. Simmer gently for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the pumpkin is at ease enough to mash.
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In the intervening time, in a pot, add the cabbage and enough water to veil. Voice to a boil over excessive heat and cook dinner for 3 minutes. Drain entirely and place apart.
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Crush the pumpkin until aloof, add the most attention-grabbing 3/4 cup water and hasten. Add the cabbage, potato, carrot, chocho, Scotch bonnet pepper, salt and dusky pepper. Veil and simmer for 10 minutes. Exercise away the vegetable mixture from the skillet and design in a bowl. Let it wintry. (It might perhaps probably moreover honest also be made forward and might perhaps honest soundless retain within the refrigerator, lined, for up to 5 days.) Exercise away the Scotch bonnet pepper sooner than the exhaust of.
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Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lower every share of the dough into 9 pieces. The utilization of a rolling pin on a floured floor, roll out every share of pastry into a rectangle form with rounded edges. Spread a immense spoonful of the cooled vegetable mixture over one aspect of the dough, leaving as a minimum a 1/2-slip border on the exterior edge. The utilization of your finger, paint water spherical the border. Fold the other aspect of the dough over, and roll and crimp the sides. Lightly press a floured fork spherical the fringe of the patty.
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House onto a cookie sheet and repeat the design with the most attention-grabbing dough. (The patties will likely be lined in plastic and frozen at this level for later exhaust.) Brush every patty with the egg wash and bake for 20 minutes, or until the patties commence to flip a golden coloration.
2006 Lucinda Scala Quinn
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