Sunny Vegetable Patties

Name: Sunny Vegetable Patties
Yield: Makes 6–8
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 1 × quantity Patty Pastry; ½ egg, lightly beaten, to glaze; 2–4 tsp salt; 100 g (3½ oz) orange cheese (such as Double Gloucester), grated; 200 g can sweetcorn, drained; 150 g (5½ oz) carrots, cut into 1 cm (½ in) dice; 300 g (10½ oz) butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cut into 1 cm (½ in) dice; 4 spring onions, finely chopped; 4 tbsp chopped fresh coriander leaves; 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into 1 cm (½ in) dice

Preparation info

Makes
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

Patties are as Jamaican as rice and peas and are the most widely available street food: the Jamaican fast food. This is an ital-version – Rasta style! It has no meat and uses bright, healthy vegetables and orange cheese in the yellow Jamaican patty pastry. The colour is to go with the feeling you get from them – like sunshine.

Ingredients

1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into 1 cm (½ in) dice
150

Americas
Dinner
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
Put the pepper, carrots and squash in a saucepan with a small amount of just-boiled water. Cover and cook for 4 minutes. Drain, put in a bowl and mix with all the other ingredients, except the pastry and beaten