Jamaican patty
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Jamaican patty is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Brooklyn. A flaky half-moon pastry colored golden with turmeric and filled with spiced meat, a staple of the West Indian community in Crown Heights and Flatbush in Brooklyn. Start with where to eat Jamaican patty in Brooklyn.

Jamaican patty · Brooklyn

A flaky half-moon pastry colored golden with turmeric and filled with spiced meat, a staple of the West Indian community in Crown Heights and Flatbush in Brooklyn.

A Jamaican patty is a semicircular pastry with a spiced filling baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture, annatto or turmeric. It is traditionally filled with seasoned ground beef, shows the influence of the Cornish pasty and the Spanish empanada, and is often eaten with coco bread. Jamaicans brought patty recipes to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and the patties were then found in restaurants in areas of the New York metropolitan area with high West Indian populations; Brooklyn is home to the largest West Indian community outside the Caribbean.

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