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Potato Roti - inside
Another popular and ubiquitous Trini food, the roti. Now found on menus throughout the Caribbean, I don't think anyone can deny that the "roti" in this form is really originally Trini.
It starts wtih a dhalpuri roti, called the roti skin, which is made from a ball of dough stuffed wtih ground cooked well-seasoned yellow split-peas (seasoned with geera/cumin, pepper garlic etc). The dough is rolled out as thin as possible without breaking it on the filling, and cooked on a tawah, while being brushed lightly (or not) with oil/butter/ghee.
The cooked dhalpuri is laid out on paper, filled wtih curried aloo/potato, channa/chickpeas, meat, vegetables, whatever. Then its wrapped up in a ready to eat roti. Although there are many who open it up and eat it like a regular roti and curry meal. And who am I to argue with that, since that's how I eat my doubles.
This one is potato and channa. A tad boring perhaps, especially for photos, but it's what I was feeling for. Bought from Amin's that venerable Central establishment, in Couva.
Potato Roti - inside
Another popular and ubiquitous Trini food, the roti. Now found on menus throughout the Caribbean, I don't think anyone can deny that the "roti" in this form is really originally Trini.
It starts wtih a dhalpuri roti, called the roti skin, which is made from a ball of dough stuffed wtih ground cooked well-seasoned yellow split-peas (seasoned with geera/cumin, pepper garlic etc). The dough is rolled out as thin as possible without breaking it on the filling, and cooked on a tawah, while being brushed lightly (or not) with oil/butter/ghee.
The cooked dhalpuri is laid out on paper, filled wtih curried aloo/potato, channa/chickpeas, meat, vegetables, whatever. Then its wrapped up in a ready to eat roti. Although there are many who open it up and eat it like a regular roti and curry meal. And who am I to argue with that, since that's how I eat my doubles.
This one is potato and channa. A tad boring perhaps, especially for photos, but it's what I was feeling for. Bought from Amin's that venerable Central establishment, in Couva.