Gizzada --- A Jamaican Dessert
From minitindel 15 years ago
- 70 minutes to make
- Serves 16
The Gizzada (Gizzarda) is a favorite coconut. pastry snack that Jamaicans enjoy eating........ok lets learn how to make them .ready ......................... courtesy jamaican cookbook
Ingredients
- Ingredients for filling: shopping list
- 1 cup water shopping list
- 1 ½ cups Grated coconut shopping list
- 1 ½ lb. brown sugar shopping list
- ¼ tsp. Grated nutmeg shopping list
- 1 oz. butter shopping list
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- Ingredients for pastry: shopping list
- 2 cups flour shopping list
- ice water shopping list
- 1 tsp. shortening shopping list
- 1 tbsp. butter shopping list
- ½ tsp. salt shopping list
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How to make it
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- Boil water and sugar together to make syrup (low heat)
- Add the grated coconut and Nutmeg to the syrup.
- Stir the ingredients so it does not thicken. Boil for 15 minutes
- Add the butter
- Stir ingredients for another 6 minutes. Be sure the butter is not visible in the filling.
- Allow the filling to cool.
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- for pastry ******
- Sift flour and salt together.
- Cut the butter and shortening in to small pieces, add to the flour along with the cold water.
- Make into pastry (dough). ............................
- Place the pastry into a plastic wrapping or foil wrap.
- Put the pastry in the fridge for 1/2 an hour. ...................
- Remove the pastry from the fridge....................
- Use a rolling pin to roll the pastry on a cutting board to a 1/4 inch thickness. (Flour the board first) .........................
- Cut circles in the pastry using an 8-oz cup/glass. (You can also use a cookie cutter)
- Cut 16 circles from it
- Crimping (Pinch) each of the pastry circles to form a casing. It will be holder for the filling..............................
- Crimp in a uniform pattern as this will give the decorated effect.
- Place the casings on a greased tray and part-bake in the oven (at about 350 degrees Fareinheit for 15 minutes) ........................
- Place the pasty on a greased baking sheet. Bake the dough pieces at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes. ....................
- Remove it from the oven and then add the filling to the baked pastry. Bake the gizzadas for another 20 minutes...............
- Remove them from the oven allow to cool..................
- The gizzadas are now ready to be served!, ............... yummy
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