
🇹🇹 Trinidad & TobagoCatalog recipe
Dasheen leaves melted with okra, pumpkin and coconut milk into a silky green pot — the Sunday soup-sauce hybrid that ties the plate together.
For 6 servings.
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Put everything except the pepper in the pot with a cup of water; lay the whole scotch bonnet on top.
Simmer 30–35 minutes until the leaves and okra have collapsed.
Remove the pepper, then swizzle or blend until silky.
💡 Take the pepper out BEFORE blending. This warning exists for a reason.
Season and serve over rice, beside macaroni pie and stew chicken.
Unlike Jamaica's sautéed greens, Trinidad's callaloo is a blended velvet of dasheen bush, okra and coconut milk, often with crab in it for the full old-school Sunday. It is a dish with West African bones and a fiercely local identity.
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