Pepper Nuts Recipe Release your inner nuts man with this quick and easy recipe for Trini Style Pepper Nuts! This treat makes perfect gifts once bottled and is the ideal snack when watching your favourite sports with an ice cold beer. Tried the recipe? Let us know how you like it! Ingredients: 1 bag of… Continue reading Trini Pepper Nuts Recipe
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Callaloo & Dasheen
Callaloo & Dasheen Too This is without a doubt one of my favourite dishes, not only because it tastes real bess but also because it uses the entire dasheen plant or taro. So we using the root and the stem to make this vegan dish or as like to say, the root and the fruit.… Continue reading Callaloo & Dasheen
Murtani
Murtani/ Upar Gaar/ Pepper Choka Emily (a self-proclaimed “pepper mouth”) learns how to make Murtani aka Upar Gaar or Pepper Choka with help from Reshmi from Taste of Trini! Murtani is an Indo- Trinidadian dish that is made by roasting hot peppers and vegetables over an open flame and combining them to form a delicious… Continue reading Murtani
Vegetarian Pelau
Vegetarian Pelau The default response when people ask for a vegetarian version to a dish is often “just omit the meat” but that doesn’t always yield great results because the meat itself is adding a lot of flavor to the dish. In the case of a vegetarian pelau, building flavor is a slightly more involved… Continue reading Vegetarian Pelau
Carrot Muffins
You ever open your crisper and see one carrot straying and not too sure what to do with it? Most times that carrot ends up in a soup, a pelau or some coleslaw. This recipe for carrot muffins is quick, easy and a great way to utilize those stray carrots in your fridge in 45 minutes… Continue reading Carrot Muffins
Sauteed Cassava
Cassava is definitely one of my favorite ground provisions, this is a fairly quick and easy way to whip up an excellent vegan side dish to go with your favorite legume or meat. Ingredients: 2lbs cassava 2 cloves of garlic (minced) 1 large onion (julienne) 3 pimentos (julienne) 1 sweet pepper (julienne) 1 cup carrots… Continue reading Sauteed Cassava
One Pot Pasta
I think everyone loves a good pasta dish and this one in particular is great because its a vegetarian dish and its all done in one pot, so it takes less prep time and less cleaning up to do when you’re done. Ingredients: 1 pack of pasta 1 large onion (chopped) 4 cloves of garlic… Continue reading One Pot Pasta
Green Pea Hummus
Ingredients: 1pk (400g) Frozen Green Peas 6 cloves of garlic 1/3 cup of olive oil 1 tsp lime juice Salt & Pepper (to taste) Method: Boil frozen peas for 8 minutes in 3 cups of water Rinse in cold water until room temperature then strain. Add garlic cloves to a mortar and pestle with a… Continue reading Green Pea Hummus
Bhagi Arepas
I came up with the idea of this recipe while eating a Saheena and thinking of a way to use dasheen bush to create a similar snack that was less oily. So I thought about using cornmeal and treating the combination of flavors like coocoo and callaloo. This recipe is a true fusion of cultures… Continue reading Bhagi Arepas