Trinidad doubles

Published 2021-08-13
Double recipe

(Date written, 29th JulyΒ 2021)

INGREDIENTES:

BARA

3 Cups Flour (This makes up to 40 doubles)
2 tbls Yeast
4 tbls Sugar
1 1/2 cups Water
1 tsp Oil
Oil for frying

CHANNA

2 Cups or 1lb of Channa
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Baking soda
2 tsp Anchor massla
Green seasoning
All Purpose Seasoning Salt
Salt to taste
1 tsp for Soaking channa
SHADO BENI CONDIMENTS

10 Leaves of Shado Beni
4 Cloves of Garlic
1 Lime
Piece of hot pepper
Salt to taste

CUCUMBER CONDIMENTS

1 CUCUMBER
Green Seasoning
Salt to taste.


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METHOD TO MAKE BARA:

1) In a Medium sized bowl add flour, yeast and sugar.
2) Mix all those above ingrediants together.
3) Then add the water gradually as you mix, until the dough is really soft.
4) Knead the flour a bit.
5) Add a drizzle of oil and knead that oil into the flour.
6) Smoothen the dough and allow to rest for 3 to 5 hours.
7) After the dough finished rest. Breakout small pieces of the dough and rest them on a surface that was greased with oil.
8) Put on a pot and place oil in the pot.
9) When the oil is smoking. Stretch out the Bara balls and fry each Bara.
10) Then cover the Bara in a Kitchen towel.

METHOD TO MAKE CHANNA:

1) Place water in a bawl with some baking soda and soak the Channa over night.
2) After the Channa finished soaking. Pour out the water and wash out the Channa.
3) Pour water into a pot and put the channa in it.
4) Place the pot on the stove and allow the channa to boil together with baking powder and baking soda.
5) After Channas are soft. Add amchar Massala, Green Seasoning, Seasoning salt and salt taste.

METHOD FOR SHADO BENI CONDIMENTS:

1) Blend up some leaves of Shado Beni, Garlic, Hot pepper, Salt, some Lime juice and a little water together.

METHOD FOR CUCUMBERS CONDIMENTS:

1) Grate Cucumbers fine using a grater.
2) Add green seasoning and Salt to the grated Cucumbers and mix the Cucumbers up.

All Comments (9)
  • @martindennis3301
    I must say that this is far the best youtube channa recipe I've seen i think it's the closest you'll ever get to the Trinidad street recipe πŸ‘
  • @sharon7122
    I enjoy this video to the fullest, and am going to make on Saturday lol.great video
  • @oscarcruze4369
    I'm in Colombia and i would like to be able to do it here!
  • MAGNIFICENT AWESOME LOVELY INFORMATIVE AND ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC AND WONDERFUL THANKS FROM A TRINIDADIAN AND PROUD US CITIZEN πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
  • @sharon7122
    Watch this video again πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ή
  • @1daxwood
    4 table spoons of sugar?? Are u making a cake?
  • When I eat doubles in Trinidad never the chana looks like it taking a swim in the river or beach it suppose to be firm so you can hold it properly while eating not causing you to wear the doubles