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What is Kurma?
A taste with a story.
A Trinidadian snack, quietly loved for generations. Here's where it comes from, and how it's enjoyed.
A traditional Trinidadian snack, slender pastry sticks, fried golden and glazed with warm spiced sugar. Eaten at Diwali, weddings, and quiet afternoons.
Kurma travelled to the Caribbean with the Indian diaspora who arrived in Trinidad in the 1800s. Over generations it became something distinctly Caribbean, lighter, crisper, and perfumed with the warm spices of the islands.
How it's eaten
In Trinidadian homes, Kurma is a hospitality food, what you offer the moment someone walks through the door. It appears at Diwali and at Christmas, at weddings and on ordinary afternoons with a cup of tea. It is made to be shared.
Sweet, and savoury
Traditionally Kurma is sweet, glazed in spiced sugar with ginger and cinnamon. We make a sweet range and a savoury one, from gently spiced to boldly so, and every flavour comes in both Classic and plant-based.
We didn't want to reinvent Kurma. We wanted to introduce it properly.
Rachel & Kezia, founders