10 min + refrigerate dough for 15 min 25 minutesmins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Jamaican
Servings 7
Ingredients
2cups(500 mL) All-purpose flour
½ to 1tsp(5 mL) Salt (if using salted butter use 1/2 tsp salt)
3tsp(15 mL) Baking powder
3Tbsp(30 mL) Unsalted Butter
3/4cup(750 mL) Ice cold water
½cup(125 mL) Cooking oil
Instructions
Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl
Blend butter into dry ingredients with fingers or mixer until crumbly
Add ice cold water, a little at a time, to dry ingredients until dough holds together (you may not need all the water). Sprinkle with more flour if the dough is too wet.
Knead dough until smooth; do not over knead. Place in fridge for 15 minutes
Shape dough into 6 to 8 small balls (enough to fit in palm)
Pour cooking oil into frying pan and turn on stove to Medium-High
Place dumplings into hot pan
As each side browns continually turn dumplings until all sides are brown and dumplings are light and fluffy
Notes
How do you know they’re cooked inside? When you tap the dumplings in the pan they should sound hollow