World Cuisines

Callaloo (Trinidad)

Trinidad and Tobago

The Sunday green: Trinidad callaloo — dasheen leaves simmered with okra, coconut milk, pumpkin and crab or salt meat into a silky soup — plus its eternal partner, coo-coo and stew fish on the Tobago side.

What it is

The Sunday green: Trinidad callaloo — dasheen leaves simmered with okra, coconut milk, pumpkin and crab or salt meat into a silky soup — plus its eternal partner, coo-coo and stew fish on the Tobago side. Ingredients: dasheen leaves, okra, coconut milk, pumpkin, crabs or pigtail, onions, garlic, chadon beni, thyme. Recipe: 1) Simmer the crabs/meat. 2) Add leaves, okra and pumpkin. 3) Blend or swizzle to silk. 4) Serve over rice or with coo-coo. Serve: Sunday lunch (with macaroni pie and stew chicken — the full Trini Sunday). Flavor: green silk, crab-sweet. History: callaloo is the African diaspora's signature soup; Trinidad's crab version is its luxury. See also: Doubles, Pelau.

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