Region or state | Caribbean |
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Created by | Sackina Karamath in the mid-1940s in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago [1] [2] |
Main ingredients | Curried meats or vegetables wrapped in a paratha, dhalpuri, or dosti roti |
Originating in the Caribbean with Indian roots, a roti is a wrap style sandwich filled with either curried or sometimes stewed meats or vegetables wrapped inside a dhalpuri, [3] paratha, or dosti roti. [4] Roti is eaten widely across the Caribbean. [5] As Indo-Caribbeans immigrated to other countries, especially in North America and Europe, they brought with them the roti and opened roti shops to sell it.