Spicy Jamaican Beef Patty Recipe: Flavorful Twist on Classic

A True Family Favourite

The spicy Jamaican beef patty recipe offers a delicious and spiced-up treat for everyone in the family with an exciting baking experience!

It seems like a typical puff pastry or regular patties available in any baker’s shop, but it’s not! As the spicy Jamaican beef patty recipe has a flaky coating with savoring beef sauce filings made in pure Jamaican spices.

There’s something deeply comforting about an authentic Jamaican patty that brings warmth and flavorful delight. These spicy Jamaican beef patties feature a flaky golden crust, filled with our original spicy beef filling that’s seasoned with aromatic Jamaican curry powder and hot peppers.

The beef filling is made from lean ground beef, enhanced with natural flavors and hints of deglazed annatto, folic acid, and reduced iron for a well-rounded kick.

To get that perfect patty crust, the pastry dough blends wheat flour, shortening, and palm oil, while the pie crust adds a tender crispiness that melts in your mouth. Whether you enjoy these homemade patties fresh or as frozen patties, each one brings a bit of the Caribbean food delights right to your plate.

Pre Cooking/Baking Tips

• Making a puff pastry for the patties could be a challenging task for especially newbies, but you can overcome the naivety with vigilance and by following the recipe step by step.
• The only secret to making a flaky crust is using grated as well as cubed butter and extremely cold milk while making dough as the variation in melting of the butter in different places adds to the flaky texture.
• No worries! The spicy Jamaican beef patty recipe has you covered if you are a vegan, in that case, you can have veggies in place of beef/ meat as a filling.
• It is recommended to use Jamaican herbs to enjoy optimum and authentic flavor!
• Patties have a shelf life of up to 3 days but if they are stored in an airtight container at room temperature.
• The spicy Jamaican beef patty could be kept in a freezer for up to 3 months. Before baking, just bring them to room temperature first.

Dough Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups of white flour
• Baking powder only 1tbp
• Curry powder 1tbp
• ½ tsp turmeric
• Dried parsley 1 tsp
• Salted cold butter 1 cup, half of it is grated while the other half is cubed
• Very cold Almond milk 2 tbsps
• Dried thyme ½ tsp
• Egg wash for baking

Beef Filling

• Ground beef
• Extra virgin oil
• Green onions
• Minced scotch bonnet peppers
• Garlic cloves
• Beef stock
• Ginger powder
• Thyme sprigs
• Sea salt
• Black pepper
• Onion powder
• Smoked paprika
• Flavo Riz or all-purpose seasoning
• Soy sauce
• Browning
• Jamaican hot sauce
• Beef bouillon
• Red pepper flakes

Also Read: Vegetarian Meal Plans for Beginners

Directions for Dough Preparation

1. Put the ingredients of the dough such as flour, baking powder, curry powder, turmeric, parsley, and thyme, and mix them well.
2. Add cubed and grated cold butter to a pastry blender to blend butter in dry ingredients until it’s crumbly
3. Pour cold milk and stir, try to keep the dough not too wet
4. Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap and chill it for an hour.

Directions for Beef Filling

1. Add the mentioned seasonings in the bowl with ground beef to mix well.
2. Heat the minced garlic in a skillet and scotch bonnet pepper until it gives off the fragrance. Add the seasoned ground beef to stir fry it till it cooks well.
3. Add soy sauce, beef bouillon, hot sauce, browning, beef stock, and thyme sprigs and mix well. Let the beef cook for 20 minutes till it is thick like sauce instead of dry. 
4. Keep the beef aside and let it cool

Final Directions for Baking

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F degrees
2. Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator and roll it in rectangular shapes. Cut into semi-circle shapes.
3. Add the beef filling between two sem circles and gently press the edges with a fork to enclose the patty, and that’s how you make all the patties.
4. Brush the patties with eggwash before placing them in the oven for 20 minutes for baking or until they turn golden brown.
5. Once done, remove it from the oven and let it cool a bit before serving.

Flavorful Twist on Classic

For a quick bite, you can reheat these frozen ones in an air fryer for convenience, without losing their flavorful and authentic charm. Serve the smaller patties for gatherings or make the sized patties for a hearty snack.

Adding a spicy beef filling made of ground beef mixed with modified food starch, soybean, and spices brings an intense burst of Jamaican style spicy beef flavor. It’s like biting into a bit of Jamaica’s soul, a great recipe that embodies the flavors of an authentic Jamaican restaurant.

From mixing the butter into the flour to forming the dough into a ball, every step is essential to creating the perfect patty. Whether you place patty onto the baking sheet or prefer them straight from a brown paper, this dish guarantees a mouthful of moist beef and a taste that says you made it with care.