Learn About… TRINIDADIAN Food! :)
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Trinidad, how exotic 💚
If you’ve ever traveled through the Caribbean, then chances are that you’ve tasted callaloo. Callaloo is a popular Caribbean soup, created by enslaved Africans using African heritage and wisdom and indigenous plants. The main ingredient is the green leafy tops of either the amaranth plant (called callaloo or bhaji) or taro root (sometimes called dasheen). Outside of the Caribbean, spinach and other delicate greens are used.
Throughout the Caribbean there are many variations of callaloo soup, which may include crab and other seafood, meats, different chili peppers, and other seasonings. Callaloo is the National Dish of Trinidad and Tobago, but it is prepared all over the Caribbean, from Jamaica to the Virgin Islands. You may find it paired with rice, macaroni, roasted breadfruit, boiled green bananas, or cornmeal dumplings, depending on what country you’re in.
I used easy-to-find ingredients fresh spinach leaves in place of callaloo, and habanero peppers in place of scotch bonnet peppers. The result was a quick and easy, soft and buttery soup packed with so much flavor, color, and nutrition! The heat from the peppers is perfect, coming on slowly and evenly with every bite. And, like with a green smoothie, blending greens into a puree increases nutrition by breaking down the fibers for us (almost like pre-chewing), and making their nutrients even more bioavailable.
https://oldwayspt.org/blog/my-new-favorite-soup-caribbean-callaloo/
Does anyone remember Bash mentioning callaloo in "Anne With an E"?????? <3