Trinidad’s Unique Food Landscape Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost islands in the Caribbean, offers an enticing blend of culinary influences from Africa, India, Europe, and China. This multicultural tapestry is reflected in the island’s diverse food scene, with its unique

Shaved ice, syrup (guava, pineapple and kola) and optional condensed milk.

Based on the East Indian influence of dhal, the soup is enhanced with tumeric powder, salted meats, dumplings, etc.

A Christmas delicacy, ham is glazed and baked/roasted until tender and cooked.

Seasoned gizzard fried in caramelized brown sugar (stew). Serve with hops, bake, sada or crix.

A blend of peanuts, ginger and sugar.

A Christmas delicacy made from pork, beef, olive,s raisins and other seasonings wrapped in a corn dough then covered in banana leaves and steamed.

Boiled pig trotters or chicken foot seasoned with pepper, cucumber, onion salt and lime.

Grated pawpaw, granulated sugar, green colouring and lime juice stirred over medium heat. When cooled, roll in sugar and enjoy!

A type of long bean that is chopped and mixed with sauted garlic, onion, pimento, seasoning and diluted curry powder.

Roasted or boiled tomato (skin removed) creamed with chopped onion and fried garlic (chongkay), seasoned with salt and pepper. Most tasty with sada.

In Speyside Tobago you can find some of the best tasting stew chicken and provision. With a touch of coconut milk the falours explode.

A soft fried bread filled with seasoned and spiced potato.

Plum chow is chow you can’t do without. Tell  us your favourite way of making Plum Chow? Comment below.

Any Creole dish made with ground provisions (root vegetables) like dasheen, sweet potatoes, breadfruit, cassava, eddoes, tanya, dumplings, etc.

Popular around the Christmas season, black cake is a cake mainly comprised of mixed essance, burned sugar and alcohol.

Confectinary made from grated coconut and sugar, to which food coloring is added.

A Syrian-Lebanese wrap comprised of a pita bread, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic sauce and various types of meat