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callaloo

Callaloo

Learn how to prepare callaloo with insights from my childhood experiences and traditional family recipes passed down through generations.
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Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Caribbean, Tobago, Trinidad
Keyword: vegan, vegetarian
Author: baidawi

Ingredients

  • 1 bundle of dasheen bush: stalk finely chopped leaves chiffonade
  • 10 ochroes chopped
  • 1 cup of pumpkin cut into small cubes
  • 1 large onion diced
  • 6 cloves of garlic chopped finely
  • ½ scotch bonnet pepper chopped finely
  • 4 sprigs of rosemary finely chopped
  • 1 cup of coconut milk
  • 2 cups of coconut water
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  • Add some oil to a pot on medium to high heat
  • Saute onion until translucent
  • Add garlic scotch bonnet pepper, pumpkin, ochroes and the chopped stems of the callaloo bush and saute for five minutes
  • Add rosemary and season with salt. Saute for another 2 minutes
  • Add coconut milk and coconut water
  • Add dasheen bush leaves
  • Cook for approximately 40 minutes
  • Blend then taste for salt, season if necessary

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