Chaguanas-Style Fried Chicken

Preparation info
  • Serves:

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Sweet Hands: Island Cooking from Trinidad and Tobago

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

  • About

Kentucky Fried Chicken and the local chain, Royal Castle, are very popular in Trinidad, but not without a Trini twist. The KFC chicken from my father’s home town of Chaguanas is widely agreed to be the best because of the copious amounts of pepper that somehow found its way into the Colonel’s recipe. I got the idea for this fried chicken as a result, which might call to mind the “Hot Chicken” popular in Tennessee.