Category: Jamaican Recipes

 Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz light rum
2 oz Coco Lopez cream of coconut
2 oz pineapple juice
1 cup crushed ice

Preparation

Pour rum, cream of coconut and pineapple juice into a blender with one cup of crushed ice. 

Blend until smooth, and pour into a collins glass. 

Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a maraschino cherry, and serve.

This is a smooth tasting drink suitable for when relaxing after a hard day at work or just having fun with friends and love ones.

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 Ingredients:

1 oz Apricot Brandy
1 oz Dark Rum
2 oz Light Rum
1 oz (fresh) Lime Juice
2 oz Orange Juice
1 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Passion fruit Juice
2 tsp Powdered Sugar

Preparation

Combine all ingredients and shake with ice. 

Strain into a tall glass of ice.

This drink is wicked and best for real party crowd. Warning will cause serious hangover.

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Ingredients:

1 1/2 teaspoon curry powder and salt and pepper
2 cups flour
1/2 cup white vegetable shortening or margarine
5 Tbs ice water
curry powder as above and salt and pepper
1 pound ground chicken
1 small onion fine chopped
1/2 red bell pepper chopped
1 large clove garlic minced
1 teaspoon thyme
2 teaspoons curry powder or to taste
1 Scotch Bonnet chili pepper, seeded and fine chopped
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup water or beef broth
1/4 cup flour

Preparation:

1. Make standard pastry and chill wrapped about 4 hour or overnight. Make filling by sauteing in some oil ( olive ) the onions, peppers, garlic and chili pepper until softened.
2. Add ground meat and cook and stir and break up meat until meat is browned and cooked. Add remaining ingredients and cook and stir until mixture is fully cooked and thickened. Remove from heat , adjust seasonings and cool.
3. Remove pastry from refrigerator and let soften at room temperature about 15 minutes.
4. Roll pastry out on lightly floured surface to 1/4 inch thick. . Cut out circles with a 4 inch circular cutter or cut size as desired. Place some filling in center of circle and fold over edges to seal and prick edges with tinges of a fork.
5. Bake 400F until golden , about 15 mins. for small pieces, 20 mins for medium pieces and 25 to 30 mins for larger pieces. Yield: 12 medium, 6 large or 24 appetizers.

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Ingredients:

2½ cups sifted cake flour
1½ cups granulated sugar
1¼ teaspoons baking powder
1¼ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup shortening
½ cup butter
¾ cup buttermilk
1¼ cups mashed ripe Jamaican bananas
2 eggs
2 tbl light rum

Preparation:

1. Sift together the sifted cake flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a
large mixing bowl.
2. Add shortening, butter, buttermilk, rum and mashed banana; mix until moistened, then beat
on low speed of electric mixer for 2 minutes.
3. Add eggs and beat 1 minute longer. Grease 2 9-inch round or square layer cake pans
and line bottoms with waxed paper. Grease waxed paper.
4. Divide batter into the two pans; bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes, until Jamaican cake
tests done.
5. Remove from oven and let cool 5 minutes in pans; remove from pans to wire racks to
cool completely.

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Ingredient:

3/4 a bottle of Appleton Dark Jamaican Rum
1/2 bottle of Wray & Nephew White Jamaican Rum
1/2 bottle of strawberry syrup or 3/4 bottle of grenadine
1/2 can of pineapple juice
Several freshly squeezed lemon or lime

Preparation:

Mix together add water to taste and serve in a tall glass with ice.

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