Cuisine Of Trinidad And Tobago
Main meals
Main meals
Breakfast dishes
Hot Breakfasts: Sada roti with bodi (long beans), doubles, bake (a sweet, unleavened bread) and shark, fry bake (a fried bread like a Jonnycake), fried aloo (potato), roasted baigan (eggplant, aubergine or melongene), tomato choka (often served with roti), saltfish (dried and salted cod), buljol (saltfish with fresh peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and sometimes boiled eggs); black pudding with home-made coconut bread; fried accra (saltfish fritters); tannia cakes (fried dasheen cake) and boiled cassava with butter; fried fig (green banana) with saltfish; fried left-over provisions (root vegetables such as cassava and dasheen) with saltfish; fried corned beef with onions and tomatoes.
bake and shark sandwich most famously known as a delicacy at Maracas Beach
Cold Breakfasts: Various home-made breads, including roast bake, coconut bake, warm hops bread and Cheddar cheese; or the popular local biscuits (crackers), "Crix" with anything.
Lunch and dinner
Curry Chicken and Roti
A nationally well-known main dish of Trinidad and Tobago is curry chicken and roti. This dish was adopted from indentured labourers from India in the 19th century, where other favourite local dishes include: curry crab, curry shrimp, curry duck, curry aloo (potato). These meals are often served with various rotis such as dalpuri, bus-up-shut, and of course sada. In addition, Trinidadians often add various pepper sauces to their meals, for example, "mother-in-law", as well as curry mango, chataigne (breadnut), channa, pumpkin, or mango kuchela. Another very popular and nationally well-known dish with distinctly African roots is callaloo, a creamy and spicy side dish made of dasheen leaves, ochro or okra, crab, thyme, coconut milk and shado beni (from "chardon bnit," French thistle or Fitweed) or bhandhanya (Hindi bandh dhanya, "closed cilantro") or cilantro. Callaloo is often prepared with cornmeal coo coo, plantain, cassava, sweet potatoes, and sometimes made with crab. Pelau (Hindi pilau), a rice-based dish, is a very popular dish in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as stewed chicken, breadfruit oil down, macaroni pie, pepperpot, ox-tails, among many others.
Trinbagonian dishes are often stewed, barbecued, or curried with coconut milk.
Curry Chicken skewer served with Eggplant Relish and Tomato chutney vinaigrette
An array of fish can be bought at local merchants throughout Trinidad and Tobago, such as flying fish, king fish, carite, sapatay, red fish, bonito, lobster, conch and crab. Tobagonian food is dominated by a wide selection of seafood dishes, most notably, curried crab and dumplings, and Tobago is also known for its sumptuously prepared provisions, soups and stews, also known as blue food across the country.
A popular Trini dish is macaroni pie, a macaroni pasta bake, with eggs and cheese, and a variety of other potential ingredients according to which particular one of the many recipes you are following.
Another local dish includes the rare delicacy cascadu (cascadura),which is a small fresh water fish. There is a local legend in Trinidad that s/he who eats cascadu will return to Trinidad to end their days.
Street foods
Hot Street Foods: Popular freshly-prepared street foods include doubles, phulourie, bake and shark (particularly at a Maracas Bay, a popular beach on the North coast), curried shrimp roti, corn soup, geera chicken (Hindi jira, "cumin") and pork, raw oysters (usually where there is a lighted flambeau) with a spicy sweet/hot sauce mainly with culantro or chadon beni (Eryngium foetidum), saheena, kachorie (Hindi kachuri), aloo (Hindi alu, "potato") pies, fish pies, cheese pies, beef pies (many Trinidadian neighbourhoods boast a local Pie-Man), and pows (Cantonese pao-tzu < baaozi, 'steamed wrapped roll with savoury or sweet filling)- steamed buns filled with meat, typically char siu pork.
Cold Street Snacks: On hot days, locals enjoy souse, sno-cones (served in various colours, flavours and shapes, often with sweetened condensed milk), ice-pops, freezies, coconut slushies and fresh coconut jelly.
Festival foods
Special Christmas foods include pastelles (called hallaca in Venezuela where they originated), garlic pork (carne vinha-d'alhos, a Portuguese dish), boiled or baked ham, turkey, pigeon peas, fruit cake (or black cake), ginger beer, ponche-de-crme and sorrel.
Special Divali foods include barfi and prasad.
Special Eid foods include sawain.
Desserts
The popular local desserts are usually extremely sweet. Local snacks include cassava or potato pone and stewed guavas, sweetbread, paw paw balls, tamarind balls, bene balls, toolum, guava cheese (guava paste), jub jub and sugar cakes. Local chocolatiers and confectioners manufacture several different types of sweet treats. Indian delicacies like khurma, gulab jamoon, ladoo and barfi are also popular.
Beverages
There are many different popular beverages in Trinidad. These include, various sweet drinks (Sodas) (Chubby, Solo, Peardrax), and also Malta, Smalta, Shandy, portugal juice, ginger beer, Peanut punch, sorrel, mauby, seamoss punch, barbadine punch, and soursop punch.
Coconut water is found on almost every metre of the island. Rum was invented in the Caribbean, therefore Trinidad and Tobago boasts rum shops all over the island, serving local favourites such as ponche-de-crme, puncheon rum, and home-made wines from local fruits.
Fruits
Fruits available in Trinidad include mangoes (bastapool, belly-bef, calabash, cedar, cutlass, doudouce, Graham, ice-cream, Julie, long, pawpaw, Peter, rose, round, starch, teen, turpentine, vert, zabrico), breadfruit, sorrel (roselle), passion fruit, watermelons, sapodilla, pomerac (Syzygium samarangense), guavas, Tahitian apple (pommecythre or golden apple), caimite (star apple), abiu, five fingers (carambola), cherries, zaboca (avocado), pawpaw (papaya), chenette (mamoncillo), pineapples, oranges, Portugal (clementines of various genetic breeding), governor plum, West Indian (Barbadian) cherry (Acerola), bananas (siky, silk, Gros Michel, Lacatan), barbadine (granadilla), balat, soursop, cashews, and coconuts (several varieties).
See also
Callaloo
Doubles
Caribbean
Pelau
Roti
Curry chicken
Maracas Beach
References
^ *Allsopp, S.R. Richard (1998). In Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, with a French and Spanish Supplement. Oxford University Press. p. 138. ISBN 0198661525. Google Book Search. Retrieved on November 23, 2007.
^ Vanished UK drink is toast of Caribbean, an April 2007 article from the BBC website
^ http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/pictureindex.htm
External links
Trinidad and Tobago: Coconuts and Curry from epicurious.com
Discover Trinidad's Food Guide
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