Sada Roti For Breakfast!
By Gitara
@Gita17112016 (3611)
Trinidad And Tobago
November 23, 2016 2:35pm CST
You hear of toast, bacon and eggs with coffee for breakfast. But for us, growing up in a remote rural area, it has always been sada roti for breakfast and for dinner. Meals were cooked three times a day. Hot meals. Talkari (any combination of vegetables fried/stewed/curry) was made to go with the sada roti. It was a complete and fulfilling meal.
The word ‘Sada’ means ‘without salt’ and ‘pure’ (non-greasy, non-oily and non-fattening). “Roti” is a kind of flat bread (as close as I can describe it). This once ridicule food is now #1 Trinidad health food and very reasonably priced. At one time you were too ashamed to say that you had sada roti for breakfast, but with new research findings this is now vaulted as the #1 health food to be eaten.
Countless food shops has mushroom everywhere and there are long lines of people waiting to buy sada roti. If you can get this to buy, then it’s a treat.
This absolutely guaranteed sellout food is sada roti with baigan choka (eggplant puree) and tomatoes choka (famed for preventing prostate cancer in men). Hmm, yum. The funniest sight I had ever seen was an Italian white man trying to eat roti with a knife and fork! Roti is a food eaten using your hands and fingers, although it can be eaten as a sandwich too. In Trinidad, all ethnic groups enjoy this food – Indians, Africans, Whites, Mixed, and Chinese etc. It is now the rave!
Have you ever had sada roti for breakfast? Or perhaps you know of some other healthy food? What is your favorite for breakfast?
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Nov 16
It is most certainly healthy, both for breakfast and dinner. A food with no oil or fat..how great is that? I am glad you are open to learning a little of my culture. Thank YOU for the visit! (^_^)
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@dpk262006 (58677)
• Delhi, India
24 Nov 16
You have started an interesting post. Before reading it, I did not think or say researched in which countries/places (other than India) Chapati or Roti (flat bread baked on iron plate) is available and is eaten. Your post is a kind of revelation to me.
So you are like us Indians because many Indians eat chapati and vegetable dish in their breakfast, instead of going for refined flour bread or other options. I sometimes take chapati in the breakfast and sometimes it could be stuffed chapati of potato or cauliflower, which we call Parantha.
Do you get ready-made roti in the market/shops? In our home, fresh dough is prepared from grounded wheat flour and then Roti is prepared on hot iron plate (which is put on Gas burner). We also eat mashed dish of egg plant (Baingan) which we call 'Bhartha'.
@dpk262006 (58677)
• Delhi, India
25 Nov 16
@Gita17112016 Thanks for enlightening me about Trinidadians. They are descendants of India, though lately they have developed into a different culture.
It is interesting to hear that you people also eat Parantha Roti or stuffed roti and there is a huge one also.
From where do you go wheat grains? Is it grown at your place or do you import it?
Do you yourself know how to prepare Roti? or Parantha?
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Nov 16
Thank you...Indo Trinidadians are the descendants of indentured laborers from India. We have evolve and reshaped into a totally new culture...different from India and even other Caribbean countries. We have no comparison in the world. Chapati is about 1% known here..and that too only as a novelty.
Ha ha...we ARE Indians but we are called Indo-Trinidadians or Indo-Trintobagonians. Our sister isle is Tobago.Our stuffed roti with dhal is called 'Dhalpuri' (new); our stuffed potato roti is called "Alloo-roti"(new) and our 'Paratha Roti' (new) is locally refer to as 'bus-up shut' and is so huge it can feed 8 to 16 people from one roti! Visitors from India (or anywhere) stand for hours in fascination at how they make paratha roti.
Your mouth will drop open. Paratha feeds people in weddings, prayers and featival...it's large scale feeding (hundreds of people at one gathering).
Yes , hot freshly cooked rotis in food places(not called roti shops). And in each Indo-Trinidadian homes. Everyday. And you still can't have enough of it. That's why it #1 health food! I eat as much as three times a day!
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
26 Nov 16
@dpk262006 We purchase in supermarkets. Trinidad do not produce wheat ...I think the climate is not suited for this. Off course we all know how to prepare roti...it's a staple diet...and cooked in every home.
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@LeaPea2417 (37336)
• Toccoa, Georgia
21 Dec 16
No, I have not had that , but it looks tasty. The picture above makes me hungry!
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
21 Dec 16
If you had this with baigan (eggplant) chowka, you'll be in for a treat!
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
22 Dec 16
@LeaPea2417 Nice to be open to trying new things.
@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Nov 16
Perhaps you will have the good fortune to visit one day and you can sample this great food.(^_^) You'll be most welcome.
@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
24 Nov 16
@Gita17112016 Thank you very much but I'm too old now. I bet I could be your grandmother. :-)
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@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
24 Nov 16
@Gita17112016 Thanks for the explanation. Your account photo has misled me then. If you're retired, I couldn't be your grandmother. I'm retired myself. :-)
Yes, many Germans love hiking. The German word Wanderlust (literally: desire to wander) has entered the English language.
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@spaceseed (2843)
• India
6 Dec 16
sada roti with lots of spicy potato curry looks yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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@spaceseed (2843)
• India
9 Dec 16
today lots of cabbage, tomato , radish in salad :)
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
8 Dec 16
Thanks...you making me hungry!
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@vaishu0106 (968)
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24 Nov 16
is chapati and roti two diferent thing? or the same one...In my home daily we make chapathis
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@vaishu0106 (968)
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24 Nov 16
@hereandthere its not baked or fried... The rolled out dough is cooked in a dry pan
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@vaishu0106 (968)
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24 Nov 16
@stbrians sada means plain in hindi and in chapathi dough we add salt in it
@rebelann (112671)
• El Paso, Texas
26 Dec 16
It sounds a lot like tortillas like the Ancient Native Americans used to make. Is it made with corn or wheat grain?
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
24 Nov 16
it looks like a tortilla wrap but thicker.
what do other people in trinidad and tobago have for breakfast if they don't eat sada roti?
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Nov 16
Ha,ha...every other breakfast...including continental breakfast you can think of. Sada Roti is a staple diet of Indo-Trinidadian...descendants of immigrant labourers of India.But remember Trinidad is a mixture of all races, culture and ethnic groups. So the is unlimited choice for breakfast! (^_^)
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Roti is lunch for me..
@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Nov 16
Yes,and not only popular but has been given a place of respect and acceptance too! We usually have rice for lunch.
Do you have sada roti in India? This roti developed in Trinidad.
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
24 Nov 16
@ms1864 We came from India (as a people) but the new foods are a contribution of Trinidad and Tobago alone...and has been so documented . It is recognized a being 'created' here, out of new circumstances and situations...and as such a new invention. Most Trinidadians will not recognize any foods from India (myself included) and would have never tasted it either (only what we see in Indian movies) .Off course we do acknowledge that roti came from India...just not 'sada roti. (^_^). Sada roti is our contribution.
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@rubyriaz007 (4188)
• India
19 Jun 18
I have never had it nor heard about it. But if it is healthy,I would definitely try it. I like dosa idly,chutney, bread and omelette very much for breakfast.
