It is a very popular bread in Trinidad and is a must around Christmas time. It took me back to Christmas back in Trinidad and Tobago and the aromas as the cleaning and decorating is being done
Unlike the coconut bake, the tart is on the sweeter side. Walking into a local bakery you're met with a colorful array of freshly baked bread, pastries, cakes, and cookies
African, French, Asian, and Spanish influences are combined with the local flavors of Barbados, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica in these recipes
D for Dhalpuri Roti from Trinidad. Pakistani Taftan is quite a sweetbread, once baked or before baking this flatbread calls for a sugar,oil, milk and saffron or yellow food colour mix for toppings to make this bread more colourful and rich
I traveled to Trinidad for the first time this February for Carnival. This is basically curried chickpeas with some simple toppings served on fried flat bread
Mango chutney is heavily used in Trinidad and Tobago as dipping sauce for various things. Over the weekend the supermarket had sweetened coconut flakes on sale and I decided to try to make my appetizer nemesis myself
The more I make things from Trinidad and Tobago and venture into the other islands I realise how many different foods (some we have in common and some that are unique to each island) we create
Though I keep mentioning ham, because it is the popular meat of choice in the Trinidad and Tobago at the time, this is easily used on sandwiches, with fried meats, on hot dogs (my favorite)
