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Default Trinidad cuisine

honey and lime wrote:
> do you like eggplant? Here is something called bygan chokka
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> 1 eggplant roasted on an open fire
> scarpe the skin off after it is blacken from the heat.
> Place the insides in shallow bowl.
> Chop onions tomatoes fine and add to the bowl. Sprinkle salt and black
> pepper. Locals like to use hot pepper for that spicy flavor. separately
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> heat skillet with teaspoon of oil and drop a clove of garlic and cook
> until black. remove garlic and pour oil over eggplant mix. stir
> slightly.
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> this is great with Sad roti but pita bread goes just as well.
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> it's a local east indian dish mainly consumed for breakfast
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> Reply
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Wow, thank you! It sounds tasty and I've never seen that approach to
blackening garlic before.