
Trinidad and Tobago / Soup
Callaloo
A thick purée of taro leaves with okra and coconut milk. The Trinidadian Sunday table.
Ingredients
- Taro leaves or spinach600 g
- Okra250 g
- Coconut milk400 ml
- Onion1
- Garlic5 cloves
- Pumpkin300 g
- Scotch bonnet1
- Thyme4 sprigs
- Butter40 g
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 6 steps
Wash the leaves, strip the tough stems and chop them coarsely.
Fry the onion and garlic in butter until soft.
Add the leaves, okra, pumpkin, thyme and the whole scotch bonnet, and cover with water two fingers above.
Simmer forty minutes covered. No less: raw taro leaves burn the mouth.
Remove the chilli and thyme, add the coconut milk and warm it five minutes without boiling.
Break the soup down with a swizzle stick or a masher to a thick but not perfectly smooth purée.

