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What to eat with Jamaican beef patties? Coco bread, to make a sandwich of one. These 35 ideas add the sauces, Jamaican sides, soups, sweets and five cold drinks that turn a patty into a meal.
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A patty in coco bread is a full meal
In Jamaica a patty is often eaten as a full meal, most of all when it is paired with coco bread: the bun is made to be split in half and stuffed with the patty as a sandwich. Bite-sized cocktail patties are served as a snack or an appetizer.
What do you eat Jamaican patties with at home?
For lunch, a patty, bread and a cold drink are enough. For dinner, add one filling side and something crisp, such as coleslaw. Keep the pepper sauce on the table and let each person add it, since the filling is already seasoned with hot pepper.
- Reheat patties in the oven, not the microwave, so the crust stays flaky.
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What do you eat with Jamaican beef patties?
Coco bread above all, with the patty tucked inside. Coleslaw, pepper sauce and a cold soft drink are easy additions.
What do you eat with Jamaican patties for dinner?
Jamaican side dishes: rice and peas, festival, fried ripe plantain, bammy, callaloo or steamed cabbage and carrot. A cup of red peas soup or pepperpot soup before the patty works on a cool day.
What bread do you eat with a Jamaican patty?
Coco bread, a soft and slightly sweet Jamaican bread made with coconut milk and folded so it splits easily. Hard dough bread, a dense sandwich loaf, is our stand-in when there is none.
What sauce goes with Jamaican beef patties?
A Scotch bonnet pepper sauce is the closest match, since the same pepper flavors the filling. Ketchup, jerk sauce, mango chutney or a sharp escoveitch pickle of onion, carrot and hot pepper also work.
What do you drink with Jamaican beef patties?
Without alcohol: ginger beer, a box juice, sorrel drink made without rum, June plum juice or grapefruit soda, all served cold.