
🇯🇲 JamaicaCatalog recipe
Flaky turmeric-gold pastry around curried, peppery ground beef — the handheld lunch that built a diaspora of patty shops.
For 8 servings.
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Rub flour, turmeric and cold butter to coarse crumbs, bring together with ice water, and chill 30 minutes.
Brown the beef with onion, scotch bonnet and curry powder.
Add stock and breadcrumbs and simmer until the filling is thick, wet and spoonable — not dry.
💡 The filling should look slightly too loose; it sets as it bakes.
Roll the dough, cut large circles, fill, fold and crimp the edges with a fork.
Bake at 190°C for 30–35 minutes until golden and flaky.
The patty is the Cornish pasty gone to Kingston: colonial pastry, island filling. It became the workman's lunch, the school snack, and the first Jamaican food most of the world ever tastes, usually from a shop window in London, Toronto or Brooklyn.
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