Name: Callaloo (Fish Stew with Turnip Greens)
Yield: Makes 8 servings
Cuisine: Cambodian
Ingredients: A handful of herbs, including a bay leaf; 2½ quarts cold water; 1 pint dry white wine; 1 pound fresh or frozen okra, cut into ½-inch pieces; 1 can coconut milk; Salt and Freshly ground pepper to taste; ¼ pound salt pork, diced; 1 large yellow onion, quartered; a 4-pound rockfish (striped bass) or similar white-fleshed fish, scaled, gutted, and gills removed; 3 cloves garlic, peeled, green shoots removed, sliced; 2 pounds turnip greens; Hot sauce, preferably not a sweet one; 2 stalks celery, cut up; 2 carrots, broken into pieces

Preparation info

Makes
8
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Charleston to Phnom Penh

By John Martin Taylor

Published 2022

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Ingredients

For the greens

2 pounds turnip greens
¼ pound salt pork, diced
3

Method

Rinse the greens, remove any tough stems (a few pieces can stay if they aren’t too big; they’ll cook down fine), cut them up, and put them in a sink full of cold water, shaking them around to loosen any recalcitrant bits of dirt or sand clinging to them.

In a large, heavy 4-quart pot, over medi