JIGGS DINNER in PASTRIES - Bonita's Kitchen

Welcome to Bonita's Kitchen! Today we will be making JIGGS DINNER in PASTRIES. Made from your leftover jiggs dinner and put into a pastry, baked in the oven. See recipe below! To view & download the full recipe, please view it here on our website: https://www.bonitaskitchen.com Our cookbooks link: https://www.bonitaskitchen.com jIGGS DINNER in PASTRIES Method for Jiggs Dinner in Pastry: Roll all pastry and cut in squares, 4 x 4 or larger, add one piece of all jiggs dinner, potato, carrot, turnip, parsnip, cabbage, salt beef, peas pudding, chicken or roast, stuffing and blueberry duff, fold pastry over on all sides and pinch together. Place on a baking sheet with parchment paper, in a bowl crack one egg and mix together, brush over pastry or use melted butter. Preheat the oven to 350ºF and bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Remove and serve HOT covered in gravy or gravy served on the side. Take me to work, school, or a to go meal! SEE RECIPE below and LINKS BELOW for Jiggs dinner, peas pudding, gravy, duff, and roasted chicken for pastries. Jiggs Dinner Recipe: Dinner for four people 1 or 2 pieces salt beef 6 potatoes, 1 head of cabbage, quartered 1 turnip, 6 carrots 1 parsnip, 1 onion ½ bag yellow split peas 1 tbsp butter or margarine Pepper to taste Method for jiggs dinner: Soak salt beef overnight in cold water or boil in a large boiler for ½ hour, then drain liquid off, add more cold water to lower the amount of salt on the beef then add 1 medium onion to the boiler. In a prepared pudding bag, pour ½ bag of split peas in a pudding bag and tie the top with a cotton string. Soak overnight in cold water or start cooking peas in your pudding bag with salt beef for about 1 hour then check to see if split peas are cooked. (You can remove the pudding bag from the pot or leave it in the water and add your vegetables with it) Add cabbage and turnip to your boiler then boil for another 15 minutes. Add potatoes, carrot and parsnip to your boiler, then boil for another 15 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender. Peas Pudding: See link to recipe! When the salt beef or salt pork riblets and vegetables are cooked, remove the pea bag from the boiler , then cut the string from the bag and pour all peas into a bowl, add butter and pepper to taste, and mix together. Remove all vegetables from the boiler and put in separate bowls. Keep your pot liquid/ broth for your gravy or soup broth. Prep time ½ hour, cooking time 2 hours, Pastry 2 cups flour ½ cup Cold Butter ½ tsp salt ½ cup cold water Method for pastries: Mix flour, butter, ( chop in pieces) and salt together in a bowl mix with your hand or food processor, when mixed add water mix until it shapes into a ball then remove from bowl or mixer. Put a piece of parchment paper on the counter and sprinkle with flour then cut the ball into two pieces then put your pastry ball on top of it then roll until all even. Double the recipe if you like to make more dough and if you are using salted butter, don't add salt. Roasted Chicken with Dressing (stuffing) Preheat oven to 350ºF 1 full chicken (3 to 4 lbs) Wash chicken in cold water. Place on a plate, then wipe dry with a paper towel inside and out. Place chicken in a roaster or oven safe pan. Dressing (stuffing) 2 to 3 cup bread crumbs 1 onion, keeping ½ for chicken 1 tbsp butter 1 tbsp pure savoury Pinch salt Pinch ground Mix together bread crumbs, chopped onion and butter or olive oil. Add pure savoury, salt and pepper. Mix together with your hand . Put all the dressing into the chicken cavity. After top chicken with a pinch of salt and pepper and ½ of chopped onion. Add ½ cup of veggie broth in the pan then cover. Place in your pre-heated oven and bake for 2 hours or until golden brown, checking it every ½ hour to base with its drippings. When cooked, take chicken out of the roaster, place on a plate and cover. Put the roaster on top of the stove and continue cooking for gravy. Microwave Style Blueberry Duff: See link to recipe! https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/recipe... Thank you for watching Bonita's Kitchen, and don't forget to subscribe for more Traditional Newfoundland Recipes and Cooking!