Jamaican Festival (Sweet Dumpling)
Sweet vanilla-cornmeal batons fried gold — the fire-taming champion of every jerk plate.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
Festival is Jamaica's sweet fried dumpling and reigning side-dish champion: a cornmeal-flour dough sweetened with sugar and vanilla, rolled into batons and fried until golden, crackled and faintly chewy. Born to sit beside jerk and escovitch, festival's job is balance — sweet against fire — and it has never once failed.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Cornmeal
- 6 tablespoons Sugar
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3/4 cup Milk
- For frying Oil
Instructions
- Heat a heavy bottom pot of oil that has at least 3 inches of oil in it or use a deep fryer if you have one. Turn the heat over medium heat until the temperature reaches 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Add the all-purpose flour, cornmeal, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt to a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Add the vanilla extract and milk and stir until the dough comes together. Then use your hands to lightly form the mixture into a ball.
- Pinch off pieces of dough and roll them into long oval shapes. Make about 12 dumplings.
- Once the oil has reached the temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit, fry the dough on all sides, until golden brown. This should take about 4-6 minutes.
- Remove dough and drain off any excess grease. Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 250
- Protein
- 4 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 45 g
Adapted from myforkinglife.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.
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