Crab and Callaloo

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Recipes from Brixton Village

By Miss South

Published 2014

  • About

Callaloo, in Brian’s opinion, should be the national dish of Trinidad and Tobago because it has so much character and reflects the melting pot of people. It is a true Creole dish. Callaloo is the name of both this dish in Trinidad and a green leaf similar to spinach in Jamaica. Both like long, slow cooking.

Callaloo uses traditionally Trinidadian ingredients. Chadon beni is also known as Thai parsley or culantro and is similar to coriander in flavour. It grows as blade