Name: Trini Coleslaw
Yield: Serves: 4
Cuisine: Trinidad & Tobago
Ingredients: 5 shado beni or cilantro leaves, finely chopped; ¼ head red cabbage, shredded; 1 small red onion, thinly sliced; 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh or jarred pimiento peppers; ¼ head green cabbage, shredded; ½ cup white vinegar; ½ teaspoon coarse salt; 3 tablespoons brown sugar; 2 carrots, shredded

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Coleslaw is known to have been prepared by the Dutch and later the English in the American colonies, so it is tempting to think those same settlers brought the dish to the Caribbean on one of the many circular trade routes between North America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Truthfully, I have not been able to find any evidence supporting this idea and I’m not really sure how coleslaw came to Trinidad. It could very well be a latter twentieth century addition to the Caribbean culinary