Trinidadian Doubles

Name: Trinidadian Doubles
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Caribbean
Ingredients: 400g dried chickpeas, cooked; 1 onion, diced; 4 cloves garlic; 2 tsp curry powder; 1 tsp cumin; 1 tsp turmeric; 400ml water; 300g plain flour for bara; 1 tsp turmeric for bara; 1 tsp instant yeast; 200ml warm water for bara; oil for frying to taste

Street-food chickpea curry sandwiched in two fried bara flatbreads. Resting the bara dough for a full hour before frying makes it stretchy enough to fry up light and puffed instead of dense.

Total time

95 min

Prep

75 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Caribbean

vegan

Ingredients

400gdried chickpeas, cooked

1onion, diced

4 clovesgarlic

2 tspcurry powder

1 tspcumin

1 tspturmeric

400mlwater

300gplain flour for bara

1 tspturmeric for bara

1 tspinstant yeast

200mlwarm water for bara

oil for fryingto taste

Instructions

Make bara: mix flour, turmeric, yeast and warm water into a soft dough. Rest 1 hour.

Make channa: fry onion and garlic with spices. Add chickpeas and water. Simmer 20 minutes.

Mash some chickpeas to thicken.

Roll bara dough thin, fry in 2cm hot oil until puffed and golden.

Serve chickpea curry between two bara with tamarind chutney and pepper sauce.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

190

Protein

10g

Fat

Carbs

32.6g

Fiber

8.9g

Sodium

11mg

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