Handheld · Savory Pastry
Patè
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It looks like Jamaica's beef patty, but Haiti's patè uses flaky French-style puff pastry; the fried version, patè kòde, is a separate street snack.
A square or triangular pastry of flaky, puff-style dough is filled with seasoned ground meat, smoked herring, chicken or vegetables, then baked until golden. Street vendors sell them hot, especially in the morning alongside coffee.
Why it's made this way: French colonial pastry technique merged with Haitian seasoning — epis and Scotch bonnet heat — to create a distinctly Haitian handheld snack.
Roughly what's in it
290kcal
9gprotein
28gcarbs
16gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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Part of World of Street Food — 3443 dishes from 118 countries.
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