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Trinidad and Tobago Carnival

Two days on the road, fed by doubles, corn soup, pelau and roti.

Carnival Masqueraders in Trinidad and Tobago
Photo: Jean-Marc /Jo BeLo/Jhon-John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Trinidad and Tobago Carnival

Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago fills the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It starts before dawn with J'ouvert and goes on with masquerade bands in the streets. The food comes from roadside vendors. Doubles, two soft fried flatbreads filled with curried chickpeas, are breakfast. Corn soup is sold late at night to people leaving parties. Bands feed their masqueraders pelau, rice cooked with pigeon peas and caramelised chicken, and there is roti and bake and shark for those who want more.

The dishes

DoublesCurried chickpeas in fried flatbread, the morning food.PelauOne-pot rice with pigeon peas and browned chicken.Bake and SharkFried fish in fried bread with many sauces.RotiFlatbread wrapped round curry.

Also part of it, and being written: Callaloo (Greens cooked with coconut milk.).

About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Trinidad and Tobago Carnival" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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