Aloo Pie

Aloo Pie is a common in Trinidad and Tobago fast-food dish of caribbean cuisine.

An aloo pie is a pastry that is filled with spiced mashed potatoes and then deep fried. It therefore resembles the samosas, but with 10 -15cm length considerably larger and has no basic triangular shape, but looks more like a calzone. At spices salt, pepper and cumin are used occasionally, garlic and coriander. Sometimes the dumplings are cut before serving and with a slurry of green peas or chana dal, peeled and split chickpeas, garnished. Can be finished with a chutney or a spicy condiment.

Aloo is Hindi and is called potato pie is English and is called pate. From 1797 to 1962 Trinidad was a colony of the British, so English is spoken there. After the abolition of slavery in Trinidad many Indians were recruited as cheap labor for the plantations from 1845, which in turn introduced curries, which were often vegetarian and sometimes included potatoes. The Aloo Pie symbolizes thus already purely linguistic cultural melting pot, the are the most Caribbean countries. These are sold pies in takeaways, but also in bakeries and cafeterias Trinidad.