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I love all de leafy green veggies but the way Callaloo is done in Jamaica is my favorite. Trying mi hand at cooking some and got a few questions. With or without saltfish...with or without coconut milk. Also...that peeling de skin off de stems...is there an easy way to do it or avoid it altogether?

In reply to Oilah

I love but leh mi put it dis way. I buy it chopped up in di market. I retired from peeling di skin. Nah yuh have to peel it or it's tough.

Nuff recipes on line bro.

I love every callaloo in di Caribbean. Trini crab and callaloo nice bad too.

In reply to Oilah

is callalo the vegetable or the dish?

In reply to Chrissy

Yes I saw nuff nice recipes pun Youtube. So far done two..without saltfish and with saltfish. Next one will be with coconut milk. Tried callaloo in Trinidad and it was great more like soup. Cyan eat shellfish so I cyan try de one wid crab

In reply to Oilah

I never use salt fish but a lil snapper is fine. Love it wid coconut milk -lil tomato, onion. thyme and hot pepper.

I like saltfish with potato/breadfruit balls but I prefer fresh fish wid my callaloo.

Mom did a Saltfish and callaloo this norning. IT full ah Saltfish.

In reply to Oilah

Man blend, the callaloo and drink it!

Raw food best!

In reply to Chrissy

Ok I'll try it with snapper.

In reply to XDFIX

Yes hear it has great health benefits but how does de raw ting taste?

In reply to Oilah

Not like spinach, bro ...cyaan eat it raw, got to cook it down.

Onion, fresh garlic, scallion, shredded carrots, cauliflower, and some scotchie ...gats to put een some scotchie. It works w/o coconut milk but definitely taste better with.

Never knew it had callaloo in Jamaica

In reply to LBW375
Saltfish is too dyam expensive here in England.

In reply to imusicI didn't know that too,when I saw it in a tin I bought.It said product of Jamaica with the tin displaying the Jam colours.Here's the problem,it was spinach and not the dasheen leaves that we use in TT,i think the Grenadians make it just like we do.

In reply to Granite

Careful now-- callaloo is not spinach. In some foreign circles it's referred to as Jamaican spinach but even this I don't like. Callaloo may be of the same family but is distinct; for one instance, it isn't slimy like spinach when cooked. It is no more like spinach than kale is.

As Doosie implied above, there is a callaloo dish (Trinidad) and a callaloo plant (Jamaica). The T&T dish involves dasheen leaves and not the callaloo plant. In Ja we do not eat coco, dasheen or badu leaves, just the root (tuber?).

--Æ.

In reply to JohnBull

Yuh know what's nice - instead of saltfish or lil snapper, yuh can add dem fine salt shrimp from Guyana. Scotchie or wiri wiri and I & I good. Didn't include dat fi Oilah since di man cyan eat shellfish.

In reply to JayMor
Now I get the jist,thank you borse.You must try the leaves,you doh know what yuh missing.