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Jamican Patties

Ingredients

  • cooking oil
  • 1 onion
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 chilli
  • 500 g minced beef
  • 3 tbsp Dunn River curry powder
  • 400 g can chopped tomatoes
  • 150 ml beef stock
  • Pastry
  • 450 g plain flour
  • 2 tbsp tumeric
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 225 g butter
  • 7 tbsp cold water
  • 1 egg

Instructions

To make the filling

  • Peel and chop the garlic and the onion.
  • De seed the chop the chilli.
  • Heat the oil in a pan.
  • Add the onions and garlic and fry until soft
  • Add the chill, mince and curry powder and fry until the mince is brown
  • Add the tomatoes and stock and simmer until the liquid is absorbed
  • To make the pastry
  • Add the flour, tumeric and salt in a bowl with the butter
  • Rub in until it resembles fine bread crumbs
  • Add the water and blend to a dough
  • Wrap in cling film and chill for ten minutes
  • Preheat the oven to 200C, gas mark 8
  • Roll the pastry out on a floured sheet and make into ten circles about 5 cm wide
  • Add a spoonful of mince to each.
  • Brush the edges of the pastry with water and seal together in a semicircle
  • Brush with beaten egg
  • Place on a baking tray covered with baking parchment and bake for 25 minutes