Doubles (food)
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| Place of origin | Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Region or state | Caroni |
| Creator | Mamoodeen |
| Main ingredients | flour (atta), baking powder, salt (namak), and ground turmeric (haldi), curry, chickpeas (channa), chutney/pepper sauce |
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Doubles is a common street food in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a sandwich made with two baras (flat fried bread) filled with curry channa (curried chick peas). Topped with either mango (aam), shadon beni (bandaniya), cucumber (kheera), coconut (naariyal), tomato (damadol), garlic (lahasun), onion (pyaaj), or tamarind (imalee) chutney, or extra pepper sauce. This delicacy is the most popular fast food in Trinidad and Tobago. Doubles are eaten for breakfast, sometimes for lunch, often at night but can be a late night snack, too.
Bara are made from flour (atta), baking powder, salt (namak), and ground turmeric (haldi), which gives it its yellow color. They are flattened into a thin, round disk about 5 to 8 centimeters in diameter then fried until golden brown. The bara are then filled with the chickpeas (channa) ready to be eaten.
The history of doubles begins in Trinidad and Tobago with a man named Mamoodeen. He started a business, and the products he sold were fried chickpeas (channa) wrapped in cone-shaped packs. He diversified his product line soon after by adding boiled and fried chickpeas (channa), then curry channa (curried chick peas) with chutney. He then introduced a single bara with the curried channa. His customers would ask him to double the bara, hence the name "doubles" evolved and Deen's Doubles became the pioneering brand.
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