diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 8da0bd32d0..9b0a3997c4 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -582,6 +582,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-extras = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-git = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-gitdb = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-iniparse = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-jinja2 = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-libarchive-c = "Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-magic = "Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-mako = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jinja2/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jinja2/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5cec711696
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jinja2/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+pytest
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jinja2_2.11.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jinja2_2.11.2.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89538d2f27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jinja2_2.11.2.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Python Jinja2: A small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python."
+
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.rst;md5=5dc88300786f1c214c1e9827a5229462"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "89aab215427ef59c34ad58735269eb58b1a5808103067f7bb9d5836c651b3bb0"
+
+PYPI_PACKAGE = "Jinja2"
+
+CLEANBROKEN = "1"
+
+inherit pypi setuptools3
+# ptest disabled in OE-Core for now due to missing dependencies
+
+
+SRC_URI += " \
+	file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+    cp -rf ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+	${PYTHON_PN}-pytest \
+	${PYTHON_PN}-unixadmin \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-asyncio \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-crypt \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-io \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-json \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-markupsafe \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-math \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-netclient \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-numbers\
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-pickle \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-pprint \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-shell \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-threading \
+"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"