How To Make Callaloo. 

This is also the national dish of Dominica made with dasheen leaves, when I make I use vegetable stock instead of salt. Absolutely delicious. I also use smoked meats, salt beef. Chris please show us how to clean crabs

Thank you for posting, its been years since I've had a good bowl of Trini callaloo. The US Virgin Islands also prepares their callaloo in the way. This will be on the menu this week! Thanks again!

Hi. I watched your video and I tried making calaloo according to your recipe. I must say its one of the best meals I ever made. I just love the texture and I left the pepper like you did. It was mavellous. Im having this for our sunday lunch. I am have invited my sisters and Im sure they too would be amazed. I will keep you posted of what they had to say... Thanks again Chris..

I love this dish. It was one of my favorite Trinidad Sunday lunch, when I used to live in T&T 25 years ago. This guy brought back memories to me and he explains the method so well in this recipe, that I think anyone can follow. God bless him!

My husband's family is Trini, I'm African American. I knock their socks off everytime 🔥🔥🔥

just tried this recipe... my step-mom always made it when I was growing up. taste delicious, plus it has a lot of green leafy vegetable that's a win win in my book

I’ll just like to say thank you for teaching me how to cook and my husband love all my cooking 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤thanks too you!

Chris, You rock. I am from West Africa and I can't wait to try your recipes. Thank you!

Made this tonight with some macaroni pie, and beef stew. Awesome.

Made this last night , (with coconut oil and regular milk (ran out of coconut milk) )perfect dish for light eaters that want that hardy feel without the heavy carbs .Thank you Chris!

Hey Chris hope you and the family are all well. I live in the UK and a friend bought back some callaloo leaves for me, so i made some callaloo today, and de ting is so nice nice nice. I made it with baby spinach before and that too as so delicious . Thank you so much for the video x

I made this last night and it came out great 👍🏽

Oh my God! i love this dish, we make the same thing in the Ivory Coast west Africa!. hum! healthy food. love it.

Keep up the good work Chris... I live in Trinidad where it similar in preparation but I use the baby dasheen leaves...a.k.a dasheen bush and the young stems..very delicious...

@Tsatesh so glad you found it helpful and tasty.

@nakjon Balancing the "overcook" and getting as much flavor may be a bit tricky. This is why we normally use crabs in the shell... plus the shell adds a wonderful flavor as well. I would add the lump crab (I assume it will still be raw) about 5-8 minutes before the dish is fully cooked.

my bad my mother in law in Trinidad just called and said she does put crab in her caliloo. thanks again for all the great videos! I made your pileau the other day and my husband loved it. Thanks.

I love seafood Callaloo! I make mines with Conch, Shrimp and Crab.Yum!

Oh my goodness, I am so happy I came across your channel on you tube.....thank you for taking me home in your kitchen!!!

Love this recipe using the baby spinach leaves since good Callaloo Bush is near impossible to find here in Canada! Will definitely try this dish as I haven't had it since I migrated.

swizzle stick is also called dhal ghotni here in Guyana.Thanks for this video.Keep up the good work.Proud to be West Indian.Cheers from Guyana.

everybody is a critic these days.... they should get paid to judge. Good job Mr. Chris

Love Callaloo. Make Pigtail calloo today rice stew chicken and potato salad. Sunday lunch. Love it

Chris, my kallaloo was BOMB! Thanks for helping me make this New Years celebration away from home that much more home-like! All the best in the new year and keep the recipes coming! Thanks again!

Agreed. I don't overbeat it. I watch it carefully for the right consistency. I don't know when last I saw a swizzle stick for sale.

My husband who is from Cayes Haiti; asked me to make Callaloo for him with fufu-Thanks for this video. I will use this video to help me make it.

I TASTED CALLALOO AND CRAB IN BROOKLYN IT WAS SOOOO GOOD !

Chris I love your recipe for the curry crab may have to try that recipe this weekend for my family

I cooked this dish Friday nite for my sweetheart. He loved it. I used pigtails. Next time I will used the fresh crabs. I also mixed baby spinach with calaloo greens, fantastic dish!!! Thanks Chris.

Are people listening....he gave a really great explanation at the start of the video that this a Trinidadian recipe.

@caribbeanpot I actually went ahead and got the actual crab instead of just the meat. I made it with the stew chicken over rice and my Nigerian boyfriend could not stop raving about this dish. Thanks for great advice! It definitely would not have been the same if I'd just used the crab meat! :)

look so yummy and delicious Crab and Callaloo

Yea man! From East Africa! We have calallo greens in plenty here. Its called terere. Ox tail is delish in this dish. But slow cook the oxtail before.

thank you,can always depend on you to keep me in touch with my Caribbean heritage,and thank you for explaining as much as you did,i am gonna get my cook on now.

BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS RECIPE ... FOR A LONG TIME ... THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH,,,KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ...

Very good illustration and kudos to the creator.

oh my!!! pepperpot boy been trying to get my mother to give me her recipe forever

Love, callaloo, finally receiving this recipe.Thx, Chris. Best wishes💖👍✌👍✌👍👍

Yes my country trinidad and tobago,the Caribbean has the best food ever

Hello, I have a friend here from Trinidad, I would love to make him Callaloo. So happy I came to your site.

best callaloo recipe yet...i sautee as well n love it spicy too

I tried this recipe and it came out great. Thanks to you Chris! Thumps up for this!

Found a spot in Tampa that sells Live Blue Crabs.. Great place - Made this recipe today, it came out great (only thing I added too many pieces of Pumpkins... Next time I won't) I don't eat crabs but the sauce is EXCELLENT...

Callaloo is boss !! love it this way or way with casava dumplings or macaroni pie.

coconut milk is used in Honduras cuisine in the north part of the country also, love it

@Dalleyne11216 if you use actual crab meat, it will be excellent. Not the plastic looking processed stuff that you get cheap in the grocery stores. I've used it with great success. But you are correct.. the actual bones (not sure how else to call it), does add a lot of flavor.

Ohhhhh....I love callaloo and your recipe is quite simple. I normally use dasheen bush instead of spinach.

Thank you for the recipe Chris, I will try it.

thanks chris...i tried this with pigtails and it came out fabulous....thanks for sharing

Great vid Chris! I also have a hard time finding taro leaves "callaloo" in my area so I sometimes use collard greens, kale and or Swiss chard

Callaloo is awesome , I never knew Callaloo was the national dish of Trinidad .

@caribbeanpot I will take your avuncular advice and try my hand at making this dish on Sunday. I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks again

so healthy, so tasty

The type of crabs you buy at the Asian shops is the same type of crabs I saw in the sea in my backyard when I was a kid. I forgot what we called them. I remember there was a species called "Blue Back Crab" Apparently you can get that at Charley's West Indian Food Ltd on Morningside. Do you remember that species of land crabs?

Very similar to Louisiana cooking....I've had it in trinadad in San fernando wish I would have had crab in mine

Chris you're making me home sick my mouth is watering!!!!!

Yum Yum i love Callaloo....you have all the good stuff..... mmmm watering mouth

My haitian family makes the same thing! Its sooo good with crab

My bf is Trinidad and I want to make something for some that is fr home for him.. so I hope it will come out great and he like it.. I always cook asian food for him something new wish me luck lol

In Trinidad we can substitute crab or pigtail with maggie crab or pigtail flavour the pot seasoning. Also there is a bush taken when young from the Dasheen plant, This is the traditional dasheen bush that we call callalo bush, Try it you will like it.

I can't wait to make this for my boyfriend! his favorite! Thanks!

Hmmmmmm reminds me of when my Mom used to cook it. Great job.

Chris I enjoy your videos …. I followed your instructions and it came out beautifully. I have a suggestion can you use a rubber spatula r to decrease the distracting noise made with a metal spoon, thx

he can go to tamil grocery stores in scarborough, they have blue crab there too, but it's from sri lanka it is very flavorful though, my trini friend uses it too

that is a nice looking pepper. callaloo is good stuff cause it is a vitamin rich leafy green that comes from the earth but the crab i could do without

Great idea!!! I always wanted to purchase a hand held blender but now I got a great reason to thanks Islandgirl

Can the Jamaican callaloo be used instead of the spinach or dasheen leaves?

In Guadeloupe too we make kalalou in Easter ok ok From Guadeloupe !!!

hi there good recipes. am a trini chef. keep up the good work ivor

Looks like gumbo to me !! I love Callaloo, used to eat it all the time in Trini,,

@rostant999 not sure how you decided what I mean (black thing).. that's not my agenda. I mentioned roti being "Indian" because we didn't invent (not sure what word to use) it. However, when you look at callaloo, doubles, bake and shark, curry crab and dumplings... the list can be long. They're dishes "we" have come up with or perfected.

This looks soooooooooo good. I love every part of the video.

ty Chris there's no dasheen bush here or Caribbean market either. the Asian market on this end maybe... but haven't come across it yet.. ty so much for this version... it's appreciated greatly.

pumpkin, but you can also use sweet potato as well

Jamaica has this dish but it goes by a different name called pepper pot soup back in the day old folks would use dasheen leaves to make it but as time went by they started using the jamaican leafy green known as calalloo..... So not so strange after all caribbeanpot

That looks soooooooooo darn GOOD!😃 You make it look so simple to cook. I am going to try it soon! Thanks😁

Interesting. Love it. You communicate important points very well while cooking👍💞

Thank you for all your time. Love these videos.

good call, but if you over-work it, it can go frothy and change the consistency.

looks delicious

Love your videos... Falling back in love with cooking

we caribbean people love dese tings

well done Chris that's how we do it

Dasheen bush is hard to find in the US so spinach is the best substitute. Its works very well.

Chris if you ever in the UK bring me some flavour peppers plzs

@sinfuldavy0 I do go shopping in Toronto, but the leaves found in most stores are not ideal for making callaloo. They're a bit tough and not the nice tender baby leaves (tight rolled ones) that's perfect for making this tasty dish. I assume you, if you use baby spinach, you would be tested to find a difference. thx for sharing your thoughts and recommendation.

@sinfuldavy0 I've never used coconut milk powder, so to give an accurate answer will be tough. Start with a couple tablespoons I would guess.

that looks really good, I'm gonna try making this tonight.

I went to Oceans Grocery Store (Asian Store) in Mississauga.. but it was the flat back (blue) crab, and not the big blue crab we get in the Caribbean.

@rostant999 can't be roti as it's something we got from India.. doubles can take a bow, but the average Trinbagonian would say it's probably calllaloo.

i remember an episode of the cosby show where cliff was looking for the chef that made Claire's favorite callaloo

I love this callaloo

Delicious, i am tryin dis

Love it....Reminds me of home

its hard to find dasheen leaves in NY...they r hard and taste yuck but i love dasheen leaves...yumm

very nice i love your recipit, the soup look great. thanks

Yes Dan i gonna try this thanks fuhh de tip Chris

Chris, I usually use my hand blender and the consistency is fine.

my mouth is watering yes

Been craving this. I'm going to make it this weekend if God allows! 😁