East Indian breakfast dishes

The East Indian culture plays an influential role in Trinidad and Tobago food. In a previous post I talked about African influenced breakfast dishes. Now in this post I would talk about breakfast dishes that we enjoy thanks from the East Indian community. I mentioned doubles s a liming food but its also a popular breakfast food. Another, popular dish is sada roti which is s roasted flat bread served with choke. Choka is the name given to anything sauteed and seasoned with black pepper, it can be anything tomato, pumpkin, potato, even bodi or patchoi. Aloo pies is another favorite and can be found in any pie or roti shop or even by the doubles man. Aloe pie is s fried dough with seasoned potato, served with many sauces like chutney or pepper sauce.

Saheena is a paste mixed with split peas and dasheen bush and tastes really good with chutney. Katchori is a seasoned split peas fried into a ball and best eaten with chutney and pepper. Baiganee is a paste like mixture of split pas and egg plant with seasoning it also goes good with chutney.

Creole/African Influenced breakfast dishes

Trinis are always on the move, the busiest periods being morning when we are hustling to drop the kids off to school and then getting to work on time. So we don't have time to prepare breakfast, so we end up buying breakfast. Don't get me wrong I love doubles and pies but that is not a proper  breakfast. Luckily there are places that provide us with a proper breakfast. Some of these breakfast dishes are of both East Indian and Créole/African origin. In this post I would talk about the Créole/African influenced dishes. Firstly, there is 'fry bake' which id just fried dough it can be served with anything, popular dishes are salt fish, smoke herring, fried plantain. Some people even eat it with stew chicken but I believe stew chicken is to eat with rice and macaroni not fry bake. I enjoy my fry bake with buljol it must have cucumber, tomatoes and boiled egg or I am not eating it. Another tasty bake is coconut bake which is really coconut bread you eat it with the same things we enjoy with 'fry bake' but I enjoy mine with butter and cheese melted.  In Trini words "dat thing does lash".