Jamaican Festival Fried Dumplings

Submitted by Oolala

"We had these in Jamaica and they were served with spicy foods (to cool them down). My son wanted them for breakfast since they are slightly sweet. We loved them. I found this recipe at Jamaicans.com and made it with a spicy Jamaican Jerk meatloaf recipe. You tone down the sweetness by cutting down on the sugar."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 3 tablespoons cornmeal
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
• 2⁄3 cup water
• vegetable oil (for frying)

directions

1. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and cornmeal and combine.
2. Add the sugar and stir.
3. Add the vanilla to the water, and then add the mixture to the dry ingredients, binding to form a soft dough.
4. Knead lightly.
5. Leave covered for about 1/2 an hour. Divide the dough into eight portions.
6. Flour hands.
7. Knead lightly, then roll and pull each portion to form a 6 inch x 1 1/2 inch length, about 1/8 in thick. You can make shorter ones too.
8. Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown. Driain on paper towels.

Reviews

[Rainbow - Chef 5368]

I had festival at a Jamaican restaurant and liked it. I asked a Jamaican friend for the recipe. We looked at a few recipes with various proportions of flour to cornmeal. I like mine with more cornmeal in it,, almost half. From the times I experimented with it, I found that some flour is needed for it to make a dough because plain cornmeal will not make a workable dough.