DISH RESEARCH · Street food
Doubles
Two soft fried baras with saucy chickpeas and bright chutneys.
About Doubles
Ria presents doubles as Trinidad's familiar street food of two soft fried baras with seasoned channa. Her home rendition keeps the chickpeas slightly saucy, with culantro, garlic, turmeric and roasted cumin.
The yeast-raised dough contains all-purpose flour, turmeric and a little sugar. After frying, the baras are stacked so they soften into the pliable wrappers described by the author.
Channa is spooned onto a bara with cucumber and bandhania chutneys before the second bara is added. Tamarind chutney, boiled mango chutney and hot sauce provide further choices; the assembled doubles are eaten hot by hand.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Doubles
Ria's Trinidad doubles with cucumber and bandhania chutneys.
- All-purpose flourBase
- Baking powderSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Instant yeastBase
- TurmericSeasoning
- SugarSweetener
- WaterLiquid
- Vegetable oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Dried chickpeasBase
- Baking sodaSeasoning
- Culantro, bandhaniaAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Roasted ground cuminSeasoning
- CucumberBase
- Hot pepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Black pepperSeasoning · Optional
- Prepared tamarind chutneyAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Prepared boiled mango chutneyAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Prepared hot sauceAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- All-purpose flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual221 conventional AP flour confirms Wheat.
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual223 bara,238 Himalayan salt channa and244/249 chutney allocations consolidated; no separate brand/formula inferred.
- Instant yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual224 instant form, broader dry-yeast candidate, not asserted active-dry process.
- Turmeric: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual225 bara and235 channa allocations consolidated.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit227 dough,261 chickpea soak/rinse,262 simmer and269 optional blender-chutney water retained.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual228/229 dough/surface/hands/frying253-259; botanical identity unprovided.
- Dried chickpeas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Baking soda: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual232/261-262 soak and boil allocations consolidated.
- Culantro, bandhania: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual233/236 channa,243 cucumber chutney and246 bandhania chutney all same named herb, not coriander leaves.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Roasted ground cumin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual237/265 explicit roasted-cumin option selected over amchar masala or combined option.
- Cucumber: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual240 skin-on grated cucumber chutney126/268.
- Hot pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual242/248 required in selected own chutneys, optional channa263. Exact species unprovided, no habanero/Scotch bonnet union from generic pepper-sauce description127.
- Black pepper (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only268 optional cucumber-chutney final seasoning.
- Prepared tamarind chutney (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual274 additional service, complete formula unprovided.
- Prepared boiled mango chutney (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual274 additional service, complete formula unprovided.
- Prepared hot sauce (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual274 additional service, full formula unprovided. Generic other pepper sauces127 sometimes mustard does not prove this selected sauce contains Mustard.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad and TobagoCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Indo-Trinidadian Cuisine
- Indo-Trinidadian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.