An Unconventional Trinbagonian Callaloo Recipe.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Chris De La Rosa from CaribbeanPot.com shares an alternative way of making classic callaloo soup as it's traditionally done in Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the southern Caribbean. Instead of using the traditional dasheen bush (taro) leaves, freshly grated coconut milk and fresh from the sea blue crabs, we'll be using baby spinach, canned coconut milk and crab meat from the can. Ingredients you can find commonly sold in North america and Europe. However, this callaloo will rival any made with traditional ingredients.
You'll Need...
1 lb baby spinach leaves
10-15 okra
1 cup cubed pumpkin
1 onion (diced)
3 cloves of garlic (smashed)
2 scallions (green / spring onion)
3 sprigs thyme
1 cup coconut milk (from a can)
1 1/2 cups fish or seafood stock
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 can crab meat (save the water it was packed in) about 120g
1 scotch bonnet pepper
1/3 teaspoon salt *
Most fish or seafood stock will contain sodium so be mindful of this when adding salt to the dish. Remember you can always adjust at the end of cooking.
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Thank you from all of us living outside Trinidad
Appreciate your love of our food
🥰🥰🥰Vancouver making this tomorrow
Your channel is the Best
I made a pot for my family reunion and for a christmas party this past season...I just made a few additions based on what I like to taste in callaloo. EVERYONE LOVED IT!!! Now everyone is asking for the recipe and evryone talks about how good my callaloo tastes. Thank You!!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! I love your videos!! You are so awesome!!!!!
Going to Trinidad in June. Food like this is going to be love! Glad to be half Trini
I'm away at school and miss home. Your food is great, but sometimes I just like to hear you talk. You remind me of my family back home. Thanks for that
Looks good Chris, I never heard of this dish before. That's what's fun about your channel!
Hey, Chris. Loving the channel. This looks awesome! Thanks for making an easier approximation of this dish because, living in Australia, dasheen leaves would be near impossible to find. Can't wait to give this a shot!
I like the explanations. I've never heard of this before, but that's something new to add to my life. Thank you for sharing.
Oh geed! I can't wait to make this!
the man say "tizik"oui! old school!
omg i love your videos am from trinidad soon in the future would be a wife so well is her am coming to learn how to cook dishes for the huzzy ..gd job and thanks
Hi Chris,I made your calaloo tonight with some rice and stew chicken..My family loved it boy,added some carrots too! Thanks for a great recipe👍🇹🇹😋
That's a fantastic dish. My daughter has just finished cooking it and I just tried some and its delicious.
hey Chris i am a new fan. glad to see the stereotype that most Caribbean men can cook. As a Haitian i would like to know if you can make my traditional pumpkin soup.its a really big deal in Haiti
I normally use the frozen spinach, it is a bit chunky until I swizzle it, all in all I do get a good consistency and the flavor is there. I am going to try this one cause you are never to old to learn. Thanks for sharing
When you have a sweet hand,you can do a lot with any ingredients.Sweet for days!!!!
Well I for one love the substitutions and it looks DELISH!! Thanks for helping out us Trinis who can't get real callaloo bush etc... this will do Chris! This will do! Will be making with some rice, brown stew, and fried plantains shortly. :)
HI Chris I do this also I live in Washington State and I cant find what I would use in Trinidad. Love your vids. Thank you for your recipes because Caribbean food is more than just jerk chicken. Linden
Honestly when i first made this i really did not think it would taste like Callaloo. Once i smell it boiling down i know it was going to taste pretty close to the real deal. i just dump 5$ in snow crab in mines for flavor.
I am Trini and I use Cream of Spinach in the box and I use salted picktail or pieces of ham.......but it look good
Very nice! Love your site!!!
This is how I make it but I use fresh blue grab. I just made a big pot last night👍 keep the videos coming.
I love it!
Lord have mercy Chris! Is ah good thing u warn us b 4 u make this. Wet u get this crazy recipe boy?😳
I use the frozen spinach and okro. Smoked turkey or smoked pork neck bones is a good substitution if no pigtail ( hubby allergic to crab). Tastes great.
That look good.
Looks so good.
that look so good thanks for this
I love Callaloo !!!!
Love your recipes' boy
awesome!!! Thanks Chris
You represent....Good work man
Hi beautiful what's up
Aaron Fibbs super
Thanks for this, Chris! I was wondering how I could make Callaloo that would taste like the real thing.
Alyuh doh study the bush he using. The basi ingredients are there. once yuh use fresh ingredrients yuh inna gear. Flavor for days. BOOM!
God bless you for this recipe. I do gave two request. Can you show how to make fungi. I think that is what they call it. It us made with corn meal. And can you pleassssseeeee make some dhal purée . I hope I spelt it right.
I have been craving dhal for a while but I don't know how to make it.
Well done Christ. But I have one for u. I will use shrimp also... Try it one day.
Lovin the caramel in the background
I use baby spinach as well
Love it man.
Love it!!
Do you have a doubles recipe video? That would be greatly appreciated.
Yes Chris i second that make a double video
I wonder if they serve this in Bermuda. I will find out in June!!
this looks great chris! i guess to make this vegan i will have to substitute a little bit of crumbled firm tofu soaked in seaweed dashi stock or some miso (or both) and maybe some wakami seaweed for a taste of the sea... oh well, i'll have to get the ingredients together to try it. but i understand what you mean about making the substitutions when you can't get the real thing.
i also make mines this way and i love it
Can you use frozen spinach and okra
Lovely...🤤🤤. Yes, when you can't get mami, get granny...lol
Alas, I've never seen okra in any grocery store and also have never seen canned crab meat. I am sure if it is available somewhere in Germany it is some luxery food I could never afford.
Hey fellow German, check out the grocery section of Asian markets, and Pakistani food stores! Where I live they all carry Okra. It's not wildly expensive. And I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I'm pretty sure I've also seen canned crab meat in the Asian markets.
Ruben von Zwack Thanks, but the Chinese Supermarket (really, it says so on the banner) near me doesn't have any fresh stuff, no vegetables, no fruit, no herbs. They aren't big on canned goods either, but the have an endless isle of ramen noodles and countless varieties of sauces from soy sauce to fish sauce and anything inbetween.
Chris, will this dish work with tuna ? I don't eat shellfish ! : (
Hi, I don't eat shellfish either but in the northern part of Ayiti, beef is substituted for the shellfish. I have tried making it using smoked herring and it's still good with white rice. Traditionally it's made with blue crabs but the fun part with the Caribbean recipes is that you can adapt them to your own taste. hope that helps.
Have you ever tried to make it with collard greens, mustard green or kale?
Seygra, I tried collards, but the flavor and texture aren't the same as the version he's making. For Callalloo, you need a softer green than collards or kale.
i made this with snow crab, and i lick my plate.....
Chris don't study the negative comments yuz a boss that's why they were watching in the first place
Whenever you doh have mammy you nurse from granny,you use what you have available.Sweet for days,I use baby spinach also be sauce I don't always get dasheen bush
😊😝😍👌👍👍👍
Wt do u have with it..rice,bread?
Spinach soup
use butter instead of oil, new zealand green shell mussels instead of tin crab and fish sauce,
aye Guyanese! why you tryin to sound like a trini so much man?!? lol, a little too much coconut milk but decent overall.....now make me a pepper pot!
ღ thanx hun ღ
Wt do u have with it..rice,bread?