Is THIS The Best TRINI FOOD in BARBADOS? Doubles, Bake & Herring, and Aloo Pie!

CRAIG: https://www.instagram.com/sundownsuperhero/ NERISSA: https://www.instagram.com/lazie_crazie Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/h/gingerscottage246 On my last day in Barbados, I headed off to an amazing supporter’s home for a traditional Trini breakfast! Auntie Indra is the reason why I came to Barbados—she invited me, and now she’d be cooking some delicious Trini dishes for me and my friends Craig and Nerissa! She’s also Nerissa’s mom and owns the amazing Airbnb I’d been staying at! SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/3JR71yN MY LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/davidsbeenhere She had already made some baras and smoked herring, and was also starting on the aloo pies and bakes. She had tamarind and mango sauces, as well as pepper sauce. Just watching the cooking process was taking me back to my time in Trinidad! I met her cat, Ginger, and watched her flatten and fry the baras. Baras are the base ingredient for doubles, which is like a play on an Indian dish called chole bhature. They top it with chickpeas (chana) and sometimes vegetables and even meat. They also add different sauces like tamarind and pepper. I even tried my hand at making and frying a bara, and then we fried an aloo pie, which is stuffed with potatoes. They’re almost like Trini potato empanadas! Then, she fried up some fry bake, which we’d be eating with some smoked herring. Next she took the rest of the bara batter, molded it into balls, and fried them. These are called pholourie! They’re like little crispy fritters. First, she boils and washes the herring, as it’s very salty. Then, she sautees some onions and peppers in a pan and adds the smoked herring, a Bajan pepper, and green sauce.