Trinidad Street Food Cooking Class February 26, 2011

Taste of Trinidad Street Food



This is the year to try your hand and tastebuds at preparing some truly unusual and exciting new FOOD with new ingredients.

Come and experience an explosion of flavor with a Caribbean Island Street Food Cooking Class!



One of the most popular one is doubles. An East Indian-inspired dish, doubles are made of fried bread (commonly known as "bara"), chickpeas ("channa") and pepper sauce



Deep fried shark wonder, surrounded by a fried bun and topped with numerous fillings. It's called a "bake and shark". It is something New York Times journalist Sam Sifton calls "a truly righteous sandwich."

Delicious Trini Street Food Menu

Phoulorie with Tamarind Sauce and Spicy Mango Chutney

Balls of split pea flour fried and served in a thin sweet chutney sauce (usually mango or tamarind)

Doubles

A sandwich made with two flat fried breads, called "bara" filled with curried chick peas or garbanzo beans, commonly called channa (from Hindi/Bhojpuri "chanaa"). Topped with a variety of spicy chutneys (mango, cucumber, coconut, tamarind) and extra pepper sauce (Chutneys can be made mild as well)

VIDEO Shark and Bake VIDEO

Catfish or Tilapia fillets will be available as well.

The bestseller of Trinidad street foods, however, is shark and bake. Perhaps the most publicized grub on the list, shark and bake has been featured in several food shows. Its ingredients is exactly its namesake: shark meat and deep-fried bread (or "bake").

The most exciting part of chowing down a shark and bake is the array of dressings.

Chutneys

Mango

Cucumner

Tamarind

Coconut

Tomato

etc



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You can bring some beer or wine to share with the group. ( optional)

Trinidad and Tobago food is a delicious blend of mainly African and East Indian elements, with a few Chinese, French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Syrian, Lebanese, and native Amerindian culinary traditions thrown in for good measure. Is it any wonder then that Trinidad food is the richest and most exciting food culture in the Caribbean.

Visiting Trinidad, without eating Trinidadian, is almost a culinary crime - Amazing trinidad vacations

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