Chennette
The Trini Doubles...unwrapped
Adding to Friday Food Fiesta (SANDWICH Week)
This is the ultimate Trini street food. The Doubles.
Humbly wrapped in paper and sold in brown paper bags, I try to have this whenever I return home.
It is indigenous to Trinidad, out of our East Indian community. Made of two (hence the term "doubles") baras (deep-fried rounds of thick batter) wrapped around curried channa (chickpeas or garbanzo beans) and topped with slight pepper, plenty pepper, cucumber chutney, mango chutney, coconut chutney, bandania/chadon beni, whatever is available.
You can either eat it all wrapped up as an easy to eat sandwich, or open it up and eat each bara separately to get optimum distribution of the contents.
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UPDATE: Complete recipe.
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THERE GOES THE TRINIDAD EXPRESS - STEALING MY PHOTOS AGAIN www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_woman_mag?id=161...
The Trini Doubles...unwrapped
Adding to Friday Food Fiesta (SANDWICH Week)
This is the ultimate Trini street food. The Doubles.
Humbly wrapped in paper and sold in brown paper bags, I try to have this whenever I return home.
It is indigenous to Trinidad, out of our East Indian community. Made of two (hence the term "doubles") baras (deep-fried rounds of thick batter) wrapped around curried channa (chickpeas or garbanzo beans) and topped with slight pepper, plenty pepper, cucumber chutney, mango chutney, coconut chutney, bandania/chadon beni, whatever is available.
You can either eat it all wrapped up as an easy to eat sandwich, or open it up and eat each bara separately to get optimum distribution of the contents.
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UPDATE: Complete recipe.
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THERE GOES THE TRINIDAD EXPRESS - STEALING MY PHOTOS AGAIN www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_woman_mag?id=161...