(Janelle sighing)
- Man, I think I have some competition.
(Giselle laughing)
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Hi, my name is Giselle
and today I am trying TriniMums doubles.
Oye, oye, oye.
- Doubles is life.
Doubles is the most popular street food Trinidad.
- It's made up of bara and channa.
So you've got the flatbread, which is fried.
- With some curried channa.
The best thing is you've got all these condiments
to choose from.
- Tamarind sauce to cucumber chutney to mango chutney,
you could just, coconut chutney,
you could just add so much stuff to it.
But doubles, yeah, it is one of my favorite.
- Hot doubles with all the right condiments on it
is the best double, tasty.
It has to be tasty.
- It is a hard dish to get right.
- If your bara thick is bake.
- Like dumpling, that is not doubles.
- It needs to be nice and thin.
- People think that when they make the channa,
the stew that goes in the middle, that you're making a curry
and the seasoning that you put in a channa for doubles
is not the same seasoning that you put in
for like a curry chicken or curry goats.
The flavor actually comes from the green seasoning,
and the shado beni is what actually flavors the doubles.
On a purist level, it really shouldn't have a curry taste.
- Bara, channa, we've got some shado beni sauce
anchar or sweet sauce, I wouldn't be able to tell.
- And then this look like curried mango.
Oh, so they put a little bit of curried mangoes.
- It looks good, but I've never had mango in my doubles.
(bird tweeting) (plate scraping)
Three.
- Just a completely savory one.
It needs something to give it that, to elevate it a bit
and it doesn't have any heat in it either.
- Curried channa does not belong in doubles.
That's curry chickpea, that is not channa for doubles.
- I think the bara has probably
gone a little bit rubbery now.
The mango sweet, it's nice
but I probably wouldn't put something that chunky in here.
- No pepper sauce was presented with this
or added to this or no kuchela or anything with any heat.
So you need something to elevate this doubles a little bit.
- Honestly it is a good bara and the channa is okay.
So I'll give it five, I would eat it again.
I wouldn't reject it.
- I would score this a three.
(bell tinging)
What makes my double special is the bara.
The bara is nice and thin.
I don't like my channa too spicy,
because again, I like to add my pepper in there
if I want heat.
My doubles' right up there with the rest of them,
I would say.
- I was not this organized guys.
- This one have the condiment that was missing.
Pepper, please bring pepper with your doubles, all right?
- See, this looks like somebody,
they all went to the same shop
and bought the tamarind sauce.
(Ranette laughing)
It doesn't take that long
to make tamarind sauce guys, please.
- The channa in this looks a little bit dry
and a little bit darker than I would expect.
- I love the condiments around.
The chickpeas are whole and again,
I like it when they're a little bit more saucy
and broken down a bit more.
- Bara is a little bit dry.
- They have the bara on point.
You see this?
This is the perfect bara,
you see how it's thin and it tearing?
The only thing is the chick pea is dry.
(Janelle sighing)
- It's different, there's a lot more going on.
There's a lot more flavor in this one.
I'm just tasting coconut through it
and I don't know why.
- Tamarind sauce is okay, nice actually.
The pepper sauce is a little bit vinegary
and the channa is really, really dry.
The bara itself has got quite dry.
It's not really doubles for me.
- To this person, the kuchela was really good.
The bara was on point, the condiments was on point,
but the chickpea is dry.
- I think the channa needs to tone down a little bit
'cause it's fighting with the other flavors
and I really want to kind of enjoy it all together.
- I'll give this one a three.
- Four.
- I'll actually give this a seven.
(bell tinging)
- So you put the bara with the channa on top of it
followed by some amazing condiments.
There must be tamarind, pepper, shado beni.
I'm not saying I don't want to win,
but I'm here to do my best.
- Wow, this is huge.
Oh, and we've got more sauces, lovely.
- I like that they've put the condiments
on the side separately so you can add as little.
However the bara looks like the oil was cold
when you fried it
and it looks like it absorbed a good half pot of oil.
- Oh, hmm, hmm.
- I think she's made, she's used canned peas
'cause the peas are quite small
and they haven't broken down too much.
- The only thing I would say is that bara is a bit thick.
(upbeat music)
- No, I don't like it, sorry.
- The bara is really, really oily.
The oil wasn't hot enough so it's really a bit too greasy.
I've had a little bit of the channa, it's salty.
- It's okay.
The channa could have cook a little bit more,
it have a bit of a crunch in it.
- I don't like the channa, I'm not enjoying it.
I don't recognize that flavor.
I don't like the peas.
Well it doesn't make sense
because the sauces look so good.
- The Bara taste nice
even though it's a bit on the thick side,
but it still taste good.
The consistency is good.
I think if the channa was cooked a bit more
I'd give it a five and a half.
- I have to give this a five.
- Three.
(bell tinging)
- I think it's not necessarily
the ingredients that I've put in it
because the ingredients are pretty much
simple and straightforward.
Of course the toppings I make mine from scratch,
the cucumber, I roast my coconut to make coconut chutney.
So it's the love and the care that you put into it
I think, that makes it special.
- Oh wow, look at this.
Yeah, now that's what we talking about.
- So the bara is very light.
I like that they've added turmeric to it.
- This is Tamarind and I'm going to overdo it.
- I hope the sauce is homemade.
It looks too good to be homemade if I'm honest.
- There's some kind of, no way there is coconut.
now you see this is nice.
Now I like coconut as well.
Not all doubles vendors does do the coconut.
- I think this one is, no, this is pimento pepper.
- Where they find pimento? (Giselle sniffing)
- This is a seasoning pepper.
This don't belong no way in doubles.
(upbeat music)
- This is good.
The bara, nice and soft.
- It ain't too bad.
- The flavor is coming from the condiments
not so much the channa.
Which is okay, but I appreciate,
I like the fact that they've kept it
a little bit more neutral
because you've got really strong flavors
with the condiments.
So, I like this.
- This is good.
(Giselle laughing)
Man, I think I have some competition.
(Giselle laughing)
- So for this here, I'll give it a five and a half,
'cause it's not too bad.
- I would score this actually a nine.
- This is a nine, hands down.
(bell tinging)
- Oh wow, thank you.
I mean, honestly I'm not surprised though.
I do think my doubles is good, but it's nice to think,
nice to know that other people think so as well.
- I tried and my doubles was not the preference.
Well, thank you still, but sweet.
(Janelle laughing)
- Okay. Okay.
I'd like to hear the feedback on that one,
but, all right, that's fine.
- Congratulations to the person that won.
I think I come in a close second.
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