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Doubles

Name: Doubles
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Trinidad and Tobago
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 3g Dry yeast; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Sugar; 160ml Water; 400g (canned) Chickpeas; 1/2 Onion; 3 cloves Garlic; 1 tbsp Curry Powder; 1/2 tsp Cumin powder; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Oil for frying; 2 tbsp Tamarind paste; 1/2 Cucumber; To taste Chili sauce

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⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Two pieces of fried bread filled with curried chickpeas — Trinidad's national morning street food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Doubles are Trinidad and Tobago's best-loved street food: two small turmeric-tinted fried breads (bara) are filled generously with curried chickpeas (channa). They're said to have been created in the 1930s by descendants of indentured laborers who came from India in the 19th century. They're topped to taste with cucumber chutney, tamarind sauce, and hot pepper sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Trinidad roadside in the morning, commuters line up at a doubles stand as fried breads wrapped in paper are heaped with yellow chickpeas.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 250g
Dry yeast 3g
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Water 160ml
Chickpeas 400g (canned)
Onion 1/2
Garlic 3 cloves
Curry Powder 1 tbsp
Cumin powder 1/2 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste
Tamarind paste 2 tbsp
Cucumber 1/2
Chili sauce To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, yeast, turmeric, salt, sugar, and lukewarm water and let rise 1 1/2 hours.
Heat oil in a pot, fry the onion, garlic, curry powder, and cumin, add the chickpeas and 200ml water, and simmer 20 minutes until the chickpeas start to break down.
Divide the dough into 12 and flatten thin to 10cm across in your palms.
Fry in 180°C oil for a few seconds each, flipping as soon as they puff.
Overlap 2 fried breads, top with chickpeas, and add chopped cucumber, tamarind paste, and chili sauce.

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