What is a good sauce for Jamaican meat patties?
The last time I made them they were delicious and spicy enough but seemed very dry. What can I serve with them that won’t make them spicier but will relieve the dryness?
Venezuelan Guasacaca (served with meat, chicken or any type of empanada or patty)
1/2 cucumber
1/2 onion
1/2 red bell pepper
1 cup of cilantro (if you dont like cilantro you can sub with parsley)
1/2 green pepper
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of olive oil
pich of cummim
1/4 cup of any vinegar.
Salt to taste
Put everything in blender and puree until well pureed.
Put into two different salsa bowls so you can add half a bottle of tobasco sauce to a salsa bowl and voila, you have the spicy version as well.
Let me know if you liked it if you decide to go for it.
NOTE TO DAVID: I always miss the salsa everytime I eat jamaican patties. Eventhough, they dont use salsa, they do need it. In caribbean food we always have to have some sort of salsa to go with our empanadas. Empandas are the same as patties and they do need a salsa. KETCHUP IS NOT AN OPTION.
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Venezuelan Guasacaca (served with meat, chicken or any type of empanada or patty)
1/2 cucumber
1/2 onion
1/2 red bell pepper
1 cup of cilantro (if you dont like cilantro you can sub with parsley)
1/2 green pepper
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of olive oil
pich of cummim
1/4 cup of any vinegar.
Salt to taste
Put everything in blender and puree until well pureed.
Put into two different salsa bowls so you can add half a bottle of tobasco sauce to a salsa bowl and voila, you have the spicy version as well.
Let me know if you liked it if you decide to go for it.
NOTE TO DAVID: I always miss the salsa everytime I eat jamaican patties. Eventhough, they dont use salsa, they do need it. In caribbean food we always have to have some sort of salsa to go with our empanadas. Empandas are the same as patties and they do need a salsa. KETCHUP IS NOT AN OPTION.
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Chicken- barbeque sauce
beef- salsa
Don’t eat pork…sorry
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I am a former chef from Canada and worked in Jamaica, plus we have several places here in Toronto Canada that make them fresh, we eat them like the people in the US would a soft pretzel, but as for sauces I have never seen them drenched or covered in sauce, if you like spicy a dip into a hot sauce is nice, but the beef, chicken one even the veggie ones I buy are not dry, best get them when there fresher, even find a recipe on line and make them, not hard, like a meat pie and turnover cross and the spices for the filling is quite easy to find, if your going to insist, dip them in ketchup??
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