The Jamaican patty comes in many varieties of fillings including chicken. Here is our Jamaican chicken patty recipe for our chicken lovers. The Jamaican patty is a pastry that contains a variety of tasty filling. The Jamaican patty can be eaten as a full meal or snack. It is often pair with coco bread as a part of a full meal.
INGREDIENTS FOR CHICKEN FILLING:
- 2 lbs ground chicken meat (In the store ask the butcher to ground it or use a food processor with the grinder attachment)
- 1/2 teaspoon Accent
- 8 sprigs of thyme
- 2 ozs. escallion
- 2 small hot peppers
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- half a loaf french bread
- 1 teaspoon salt
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METHOD:
- Grind escallion and hot peppers in a mincing mill.
- Add to ground chicken with salt.
- Place chicken meat in a saucepan making a well in the center into which place 4 sprigs of thyme.
- Cook without adding any water or fat until chicken meat has lost its broth and only very little oil remains.
- Pour off excess oil and add this to the paprika to be used later on, strained for coloring meat.
- While the chicken 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.
- Pass bread through mincing mill and return the ground bread water with 4 sprigs of thyme and cook until bread is dry.
- Combine chicken meat and cooked bread.
- Add color, paprika in sufficient quantity to color the chicken meat to taste.
- Cook together for a further 20 mins.
- Add Accent . Remove from fire. Cool for filling pastry circles.
INGREDIENTS FOR PASTRY:
- 11 ozs suet (beef fat or shortening)
- 4 cups flour
- 1 level teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup iced water
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METHOD:
- Trim all skin and fatty membrane from suet and set overnight in freezer.
- Next day, with a very sharp knife shave suet as finely as possible.
- Combine salt and flour, then work in suet as you would shortening in plain pastry, cutting it in with two knives.
- Add iced water in sufficient amount to have a dough which can be rolled out.
- Form into a ball and with a rolling pin, pat gently, turning the dough over once or twice in order to have it all properly held together.
- Set overnight wrapped in wax paper in freezer.
- Next day, pull off enough dough (after defrosting) to roll into a circle the size of a breakfast saucer.
- Dip dough in flour before rolling.
- Roll quite thin and cut in a circle. (use saucer for help) In the center of each circle place a spoonful of chicken meat, fold dough over to form a crescent shape seal edges with egg white or by crimping the edge and folding dough slightly under.
- Do not prick the pastry.
- Bake on ungreased tin sheet in a hot oven for about 35 mins.
- This recipe will make about 3 dozen regular patties. if cocktail patties are needed, use a smaller cutter than a saucer.
- Serving 3 dozen regular size patties.Try different fillings for experiment.