DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Cow Foot and Beans
Jamaican cow-foot stew with butter beans, thyme, scallions and optional Scotch bonnet.

About Cow Foot and Beans
Jamaican-recipes.com describes cow foot as a familiar Jamaican stew traditionally associated with weekday meals. This rendition pairs pieces of cow foot with canned butter beans in an aromatic broth.
Thyme, scallions and black pepper give the stew its seasoning. Scotch bonnet is optional, providing a hotter version for those who include it, while the butter beans contrast with the tender cow-foot pieces.
Plain white rice is one suggested accompaniment. Optional flour-and-water spinners add small dumplings to the stew, alongside the beans, meat pieces and broth.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Cow Foot and Beans
Jamaican-recipes.com's cow foot with butter beans.
- Cow footProtein
- Canned butter beansBase
- ThymeAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- Black pepperSeasoning
- ScallionsAromatic
- Scotch bonnet pepperSeasoning · Optional
- WaterLiquid
- Flour for spinnersBinder · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Prepared white riceAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Cow foot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual36 chopped/cleaned cow feet, no separate meatcut inferred.
- Canned butter beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual37 Jamaican Butter Bean, broader named bean candidate; full canned product formula unknown.
- Thyme: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scallions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scotch bonnet pepper (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual42 explicitly optional.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual45 literal washing/pressure liquid, retained saucepan broth48; own optional spinner43 shared. External pot-cooling water47 is not an extra food allocation.
- Flour for spinners (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual49 directly links own full stewpeas43-48 dumpling component: flour+water kneaded/shaped/cooked; cereal unprovided. Separate stew beef/redbeans/oil/salt not spinner dough.
- Prepared white rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual51 white rice selected over bread/yam/dumplings/potatoes. Unlinked full rice formula unavailable, no guessed raw recipe.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Jamaica
- JamaicaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Jamaican Cuisine
- Jamaican CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.