Trinidad Sweet Bread
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Packed with coconut, dried fruits, nuts, and the cozy flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg, it’s a quick bread twist on traditional fruitcake.
Packed with coconut, dried fruits, nuts, and the cozy flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg, it’s a quick bread twist on traditional fruitcake.
Trinidad Kurma is a sweet crispy and fried dough flavored with spices and topped with sugar.
Trinidad Pastelle is a savory cornmeal pie filled with meat, fish or vegetables and is wrapped and steamed in a banana leaf.
Trinidad Paime is a sweet dessert pie rolled in a banana leaf and steamed to perfection. It contains cornmeal, coconut, pumpkin & spices.
Trinidad black cake is a popular rum cake dessert soaked in rum and cherry brandy and contains macerated dried fruits.
Dhal Puri is filled with ground seasoned Dhal or yellow split peas that create a crumbly mixture within the dough layers.
One of the most famous Trinidad street foods, Doubles, is commonly associated with breakfast or late-night bar crawls.
Curry chicken is a tasty, spicy chicken recipe made with a unique curry powder blend that is very popular in T&T and the Caribbean.
This delicious sauce is made with culantro (chadon beni) leaves, garlic, pepper and lime. It’s best used as a condiment over fried food.
Pig Foot Souse is a pickled meat dish that is cooked till tender and fall off the bone, then marinated in a brine of fresh local seasonings.
This baiganee recipe is made with eggplant slices that’ve been battered with split peas powder and seasonings and deep fried to perfection.
Want a light, fluffy sponge cake? Then, try this simple Trinidad sponge cake recipe. It’s sweet goodness!
Pholourie is a n Indian-inspired, popular street snack in T&T made with flour, split peas powder, turmeric and Caribbean seasonings.
Rich, Brown, Fragrant and Spicy and done in the instant pot, this chicken stew is everything you want for November and more.
Trinidad doubles is the most iconic street food for Trinidad. It is vegetarian. Chickpeas filled in between two deep fried bread.
Tamarind balls are sweet, spicy, tasry treats made with tamarind, sugar, and seasonings like garlic, pepper and Caribbean green seasoning.
Dosti roti is a double layered roti made with flour and water and stuck together with oil. This is a wonderful roti recipe.
This buss up shut bread, a Trinidad flatbread also called paratha roti, is such a fun bread to make and eat. Serve it with curries & stews.
Caribbean Christmas black cake with rum soaked fruit and burnt sugar flavour. It is the Jamaican cousin of British Christmas cake.
This callaloo recipe is made with young taro leaves, pumpkin, okra, and coconut milk. It’s a favorite in the Caribbean, especially in T&T.
Try this yellow split peas dhal recipe. It’s fast, delicious and works as a soup or side dish. It’s vegan comfort Caribbean/ Indian food.
This is a traditional Trini style red beans made to serve with rice.