Food of Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago's food reflects Indian, African, Chinese, Syrian, Spanish and Creole cultures. Roti, curried chickpeas, callaloo, pelau and fresh seafood are everyday favorites, with hot pepper sauce and chadon beni adding punch. Street food is a way of life, from doubles at breakfast to shark and bake at the beach.
Callaloo
Creamy dasheen leaf and okra puree.
- Main dishes (8)
- Breakfast (4)
- Street food (5)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (2)
- Desserts and sweets (5)
- Drinks (5)
- Fruits and produce (7)
Staples
- rice
- pigeon peas
- roti flour
- coconut
- chickpeas
- seafood
- cassava
- plantains
Signature flavors
- curry
- chadon beni
- scotch bonnet
- cumin
- garlic
- thyme
- tamarind
Main dishes
One-pot rice with chicken, pigeon peas and coconut.
Key ingredients: rice, chicken, pigeon peas, coconut milkCreamy dasheen leaf and okra puree.
Key ingredients: dasheen leaves, okra, coconut milk
Curried chicken wrapped in soft flatbread.
Key ingredients: roti, chicken, potato, curryChicken browned in sugar and stewed.
Key ingredients: chicken, brown sugar, thyme
Baked macaroni with cheese.
Key ingredients: macaroni, cheese, egg, milkCrab curry with flour dumplings from Tobago.
Key ingredients: crab, curry, dumplingsBrowned and braised beef or chicken.
Key ingredients: beef, brown sugar, onionSeasoned fish fried crisp.
Key ingredients: king fish, flour, limeBreakfast
Two soft breads filled with curried chickpeas.
Key ingredients: bara, chickpeas, tamarindFull guide →Fried bread with seasoned salt cod.
Key ingredients: flour, saltfish
Salt cod salad with tomato and peppers.
Key ingredients: saltfish, tomato, onionPuffy fried bread.
Key ingredients: flour, baking powderStreet food
Fried shark in fried bread with chutneys.
Key ingredients: shark, bake, tamarind sauce
Fried pie filled with spiced potato.
Key ingredients: flour, potato, cumin
Fried split pea dough balls.
Key ingredients: split peas, turmeric, tamarind chutneyA thick street soup with dumplings.
Key ingredients: corn, split peas, dumplingsCurry wrapped in dhalpuri.
Key ingredients: roti, currySoups
Hearty soup of corn and dumplings.
Key ingredients: corn, peas, pumpkinLight soup with fish and vegetables.
Key ingredients: fish, provision, herbsSalads
Fresh cucumber and tomato.
Key ingredients: cucumber, tomato, limeSpicy green mango with pepper.
Key ingredients: green mango, chadon beni, pepperDesserts and sweets
Fried sweet dough pieces.
Key ingredients: flour, sugar, coconut
Milk dumplings in syrup.
Key ingredients: milk powder, sugar, cardamomCoconut-raisin sweet bread.
Key ingredients: coconut, raisins, flour
Baked cassava or pumpkin cake.
Key ingredients: cassava, coconut, sugarCreamy island ice cream.
Key ingredients: coconut, creamDrinks
Hibiscus drink with ginger.
Key ingredients: hibiscus, ginger, cloves
Fresh from the nut.
Key ingredients: coconut
Bittersweet bark drink.
Key ingredients: mauby bark, sugar, spicesCreamy peanut shake.
Key ingredients: peanut butter, milk, nutmegThick seaweed milkshake.
Key ingredients: sea moss, milkFruits and produce
Julie and Starch varieties.
Tart golden fruit.
Tangy pods.
Called pawpaw.
Full guide →
Fruit and nuts.
Small, sweet green fruit.
Staple.
Dish guides from Trinidad and Tobago
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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Trinidadian Chicken Pelau (15399269506): Arnold Gatilao from Oakland, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Callaloo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/67276179@N08/, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 2020-05-08 19 34 28 Chapati being made in a pan in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Macaroni pie 1: Wendy Harman from Washington DC, USA, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Buljol (Salted cod, oil, onions, tomatoes, pepper, boiled eggs): Kalamazadkhan, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aloo Pie: Jason Lam, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- RK 1611 1012 Pholourie: Reinhard Kraasch, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gulab-jamun-wallpaper-1: Sapra5379, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Corn Pone - Ted Major Flickr: Ted Major, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hibiscus tea: Emna Mizouni, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Young Coconut Drink: Shameelnurani313, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Botellas de Maví (izq. - llena, der. - vacía), en Ponce, Puerto Rico (DSC02261): Carmelo Ruro, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mangos - single and halved: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Starr 980529-4218 Spondias dulcis: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tamarindus indica pods: B.navez, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Carica papaya - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-029: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cashew apples: Abhishek Jacob, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Melicoccus bijugatus: No machine-readable author provided. Hans B.~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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