Trini condiments

I don't know what it is with Trinidadian and sauce. We putting sauce on every and anything, we telling the doubles man we want all the sauces, we buy a pizza we loading it ketchup, mustard and pepper, bake and shark with all the sauces. I love the tamarind and chado beni sauces. Even when we are at Subway, some people will say they buy subway for the bread, but I heard most people like subway because of their sauce. We are a 'sauce' people I guess is because of our rich taste for flavor. Some of these sauces we enjoy  are of different origins. Garlic sauce has an Syrian origin, because of their love for garlic. However, most of our sauces are of East Indian influence.
Firstly, we have pepper sauce, pepper is a popular seasoning among the East Indian community. 'Hot peppers' also known as habaneros are the main ingredient are minced or chopped and is combined with other local spices,some people even mix it with vegetables. Also there is 'mother in law' another popular are hot peppers mixed with carrots, Carlyle and other spices. There also chutneys that come in different flavors such as; tamarind and mango. Kuchela and anchor are made from some of our local fruits like tamarind, pommecthere and mango.

The Syrian/Lebanese contribution

The last group of immigrants to venture the shores of Trinidad and Tobago originated from the region of Greater Syria and comprises of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon. Many of the Lebanon hailed from villages of Bichandoun and Amyoun, while the Syrians came from villages, they then emigrated to the Caribbean to escape religious persecution and economic hardship.

We have a melting pot of Arabic foods. We have even adopted some of their food preparation methods such as; grilling, roasting and baking. Even some of our popular seasonings that we use in our daily food such as; garlic, lemon, mint and olive oil is Syrian influenced because they use a lot of seasoning in their food .

 Popular Arabic foods found in many Arabic restaurants include includes;
Arabic rice -mined beef or lamb cooked in chicken stock, stir fried with rice, flavored with onions, salt and pepper and cinnamon.
Arabic bread - (pita) is a flat round bread easily split to make a sandwich.
 Sunsun bread is a thin crisped roasted bread with sesame seeds.

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