Doubles (food)

One Doubles is a originating from Trinidad and Tobago snack dish of Caribbean cuisine. It consists of two small, deep-fried flat bread, a chickpea curry and one or more chutneys are added to the. The Doubles is a classic trinidianisches breakfast, which is bought and consumed on the go, but is also a popular day and evening snack.

North Indian immigrants brought the recipe for Chole Bhature to Trinidad, hearty spiced chickpeas with Bhatura. Over time, the court was " trinidadisiert " by using local spices. 1937 developed Emamool " Mamudeen " Deen the court for a snack further by been converted into the previously gereichte as a side dish flatbread packaging.

The flat breads, called bara, made ​​from flour, water, baking powder, salt and turmeric. For the chickpeas curry ( channa ) there is no fixed recipe, even with the chutneys imagination knows no bounds. In general, spiced up with chili sauce, often topped off with mango or Kuchela, a tangy Mangorelish. Instead of adding a second pita bread a Doubles is now also often wrapped in a single and for larger flatbread.

Compared to other snack dishes that consist of a filled flatbread (eg taco, shawarma, Bake and Shark ), the Doubles quite damp and so hard to eat because of the high liquid content of chickpea curries. Experienced eaters use the flatbread as in the Ethiopian kitchen cutlery as spare and thus spooning the curry.