Wrap roti

A Roti is one originating from Trinidad and Tobago snack dish of Caribbean cuisine. It consists of a curry which is wrapped in a thin pita bread.

The Roti is named after the unleavened flat bread which is staple food in Northern India and Pakistan. Almost 40 % of the population of Trinidad are of Indian descent. The thin flat bread is baked on one of the pancake maker similar, heated plate or in a very flat, tawa -called pan. Basis of the court is a curry of meat and potatoes. As a source of meat chicken is used mainly in larger takeaways also beef, goat and occasionally duck, mussels or shrimp are used. Often the meat still contains bones that need to be eliminated from the eater. The curry is wrapped in a roti flatbread and then wrapped in paper. To simplify the distinction between the terms for the snack-food court on the one hand and the flatbread on the other hand, the flatbreads are often referred to as " roti skins". An alternative dosage form is the " buss -up -shut " roti, in which the curry is not wrapped in bread, but is served with small scraps of torn bread on the side. The name is a corruption of " burst up shirt " because the bread pieces are reminiscent of clothing scraps. The Roti was prevailing opinion mid 1940 in San Fernando, Trinidad of Sackina Karamath " invented ", which also opened the first roti shop there. From San Fernando from the Roti spread over large part of the Caribbean and is now available (in the U.S. and Canada, London and several cities ) and outside in some cities with significant number of emigrated Caribbean residents. The sale is usually in Roti shops - in cities are the fast food restaurants or takeaways, which also have other fast food on offer in the country, however, often only simple roadside food stalls. Roti shops have a very high prevalence in Trinidad, they are " so widespread as McDonald's in the United States."