How To Make Trinidad Doubles At Home
Doubles is hands-down Trinidad and Tobago’s #1 street food! Make sure to customize your doubles just the way you like it with condiments like cucumbers, mango chutney, sweet sauce and pepper sauce” Try out this recipe for a homemade twist to this quintessential Trini must-have street food!
Bara Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon yeast
- 1/4 cup lukewarm water
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 cup lukewarm water
- 1 tablespoon oil
- Oil for shaping bara
- 3 cups of oil for frying
Directions
- In a large bowl, add 1 cup of flour with your yeast, sugar, turmeric, salt and add 1/2 cup of warm water. Begin kneading and let sit for 5 minutes.
- Gradually, add in the remaining flour and add additional water to assist in the kneading process. Shape your dough into a large ball and coat with 1 tablespoon of oil.
- Set in a warm place covered with a tea towel or cling wrap and leave to rise for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, take your bara dough and shape into small balls and lay out on your clean countertop or tray.
- Grease your hands with oil and flatten out bara dough into circles, starting from the edges and leaving the centre a little thicker.
- Pour oil for frying in a heavy bottom pot and allow to heat for 5 minutes on a high flame.
- When the oil is very hot, gently lay one bara in the oil. The cooking process takes less than 10 seconds per bara. Make sure to flip quickly and drain on paper towels .
Channa Filling Ingredients
Boiling the Channa
- 1 lb dried channa
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 10 cups water
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 4 leaves shadon beni (minced)
- 6 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 medium onion (chopped)
- 4 pimentos (chopped)
- 1/2 cup chives (chopped)
- 3 sprigs fine thyme
- 1 tablespoon saffron
Currying the Channa
- 1 1/2 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon geera seeds (cumin)
- 1/2 cup chives (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon saffron
- 1 teaspoon dried fine thyme
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1/2 cup water
- Salt to taste
- 2 teaspoons roasted geera powder (optional)
Directions
- Soak your dried channa for at least 3 hours or overnight.
- Wash and drain the channa and place in a pressure cooker and add the water and seasonings.
- Lock your pressure’s cooker’s lid securely (follow your pressure cooker’s guidelines) and cook on high pressure 20 minutes before the whistle sounds. If you don’t have a pressure cooker, use a regular pot and boil channa on medium heat for 1 hour or until channa is tender.
- Remove your pressure cooker from heat and release pressure in your sink under cool water.
- In a heavy bottom pot, heat the oil and add the geera seeds. Saute for 30 seconds and add in all the other ingredients except the water and channa.
- Cook for one minute then add the water and cook for another minute or until the water evaporates.
- Add the cooked channa with boiling liquid and cook on the stovetop for 5-8 minutes to allow flavours to become incorporated.
- Thicken the gravy by smashing some of the channa. Right before the channa is finished, add salt and geera.
- Serve on your hot Bara and enjoy!
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