
🇯🇲 JamaicaCatalog recipe
Sweet cornmeal dumplings fried into golden torpedoes — the crunchy-soft sidekick to jerk and escovitch that disappears first.
For 6 servings.
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Whisk flour, cornmeal, sugar and baking powder; add vanilla and enough water for a soft, slightly sticky dough.
Rest the dough 10 minutes, then roll pieces into thick fingers.
Fry at 170°C, turning, until deep gold all over, about 8 minutes.
💡 Medium heat — hot oil browns the outside before the middle cooks.
Drain and serve hot beside anything jerked or fried.
Festivals grew up at Hellshire beach beside fried fish, a sweeter, cornmeal cousin of the fried dumpling. The name is honest: fry a batch and it becomes one.
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