Trinidad's Callaloo 

The only person I have seen in a long time prepare callaloo the original Trini way. Thank you

Trinidad food is the best so so delicious

It's looks great. I love it when you mentioned that we don't peel the stem any more, that was back in the days our parents used to do. How true!

Mama used our swizzle stick for more than cooking. Sometimes when I behaved badly she used it on me.

I love my callaloo with crab or macaroni pie. Great video!!! Trini's do it best

I completely skip the sauteing and cook everything together that is how i learned it

I love d texture of your callaloo....I still peel my stems & take d vein off d back of d leaves & d tip of d leaf also....very very nice great job.

My grandpa use to make this...RIP grandpa :3 He loved his bush I miss him so much. and My grandma RIP guys.

I plant a patch of taro in my garden here in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. We call taro in Malay (my language, Malaysian national language) KELADI. We eat both tubers and stalks but not leaves, we throw away leaves but after checking in the net, I find that leaves are edible too. So TODAY i just harvested a bunch of taro stalks, I cut them into short pieces, peel of the skin, and now soaking them overnight in salt-tamarind solution..to remove the itchy toxin. tomorrow I will boil them, wash, then cook second time in a dish loved in Malaysia called ASAM REBUS KELADI (taro stalks boiled in tamarind gravy). But I also just chopped the leaves into shreds and soaking them overnight too, I will cook the leaves tomorrow as well.

I love it ..... just like being back home in T'dad

I'm Guyanese and I love trying different foods, no matter what the country. @ kkkdchic, it's ppl like you that create hate and negativity amongst ppl in the West Indies. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you don't have to single out a particular nation of ppl to make your point. Teach and show tolerance, not ignorance

Enjoyed your cooking from Toronto.we in Guyana while growing up never use the dashing or edoes leaf for cooking but guess we now learn from our Trini friends .I like the way you mixed the dashing bush,ochra,and pumpkin together.i will surely try it.

Love that you use fresh coconut milk pack coconut changes the taste

this is how i make my callaloo...thanks Chef

I love eating taro and off course taro leaves.Yummy!Papua New Guinea

I made this recipe today and wow it came out great. Thanks to you. Wonderful job, thumps up for this!

I still and will always peel my dasheen bush stem, but this looks delicious

Beautifully cooked, nice.... only thing I missed is the crab. Thank you lots.

Amazing recipe

Am a jamaican i love all the veg you use but 1 ddnt no dasheen leave cud cook thankx for this dish am deffinetly gonna make use of all these dasheen leaves in my granny garden...thank chef love your dish...

thanks for the recipe

Thats a well made callaloo all it missing is a lil crab

I still peal my stems and I also used the role bushes but I do the same thing like you did good job 🖐🖐

Brilliant - Thanks for sharing.

Nah boy. My mother don’t fry the okra or anything. It would have the thing tasting oily. We put all to boil down nicely than blend last. But I guess everyone does it differently 🤷🏾‍♀️

never tried it! looks delish

I love your method. We more or less do it the same way. Unfortunately some of the vendors selling the callalloo bush are dishonest at times. You don't get callalloo Bush, they give you eddoes Bush instead

in my island we called..taro/talo the leaves we called rukau/lukau..we cook in coconut cream on hot rocks in the ground..warning if you dont wash it good or pick bad leaves your throat be itchyyyyyyyy!!

looks delicious...

I'm going to try,,,yummy

@Josh Lavian you can substitute with baby spinach, it taste exactly like the taro leaves.

I have not taste this in years, am coming home Trinidad!!

Feeling to eat callaloo now ♥♥♥♥

im so happy im from trinidad

Lol looks yummy wow great cook

I am Montagnard jarai tribe my mother use to cooked taros leafs , stems eat with jasmine rice so yummy.

Thank you for sharing this recipe 😋 l love a variety of dishes.

My mum used to make us use gloves to peel the callaloo bush, the bush stain your finger. You did a wonderful job, My Brother made best callaloo

Love my peoples 🇹🇹🇹🇹

in mauritius island we call it curry songe n the tubular par is violet.compliments

Uuum..... Extraño comer de nuevo este rico plato... Cuando fui a Trinidad quede enamorada de el.... Pero Aquí en Venezuela no tengo como cocinarlo

it is usually eaten as a sauce or in a different way the callaloo bush can be cooked into a soup!

I would eat right now

Chef yur did great job explaining dat dey boi!!!😄 ah going use yur cutting style for meh dasheen Bush for Easter dinner,thank yur! !!!

FROM NEWYORK CITY TO TRINIDAD LOOKS DELICIOUS 😉❣

Looks really good, looks so flavorful..love my callaloo with pigtail and coo - coo. .

Yum!

great

Oh my i miss home

Love Love love

sure tuh turn up! yuh sure right!

Yes it is.

I still peel my stems!

nice

Well thts a dhal gootnie ( a swizzle stick for dhal)

I just sit and look at this video for no reason what's so ever it's honestly the best callaloo recipe two hit RU-vid

I still peel the skin off the stems. It stains my fingers but you can rub lime on your hand before to prevent that. Learnt that from my mother.

Mmmmm......I could eat callaloo every day, with or without crab. I like mine with plenty ochro,

Hi. Where did you get your swizzle stick?

Like the dahl gootnie!

The traditional recipe shows you place all ingredients in boiling water then add coconut milk. Simmer till done.

Let that pepper burst for a pepper mouth we enjoy it more 😆😆😆😆😆but to each it own great job chef 😊😊😊😊

do you add water?

Ooh con el diced pumpkin

Awesome, the real way to make callaloo. Where is the Trinidad Pelau video?

the stem we blanch verrrry lightly and strip, marinate it lime. In the meantime grate coconut and squeeze the milk, Then dice chilli 🌶, tomato 🍅, onion and add it ALL to the stem to make a delicious lil dish. Best served chilled however we don't usually wait that long lol 😍 😋

In Fiji we call it rou rou.

we call this dalo bhaji and it can be cooked with coconut milk as well called rau rau

if not as a soup, what is the traditional way of eating it then? what would you eat with it? sounds very interesting! i would love to try it some day...

I still peel the veins in the leaves and stems and I usually use my hand mixer.

Some people say that the stem itches your throat! But it probably just cooks faster with the stem off.

How the pot brown so

I am living in Trinidad

wat to do ifvthe bush scratches your hands but looks good

Good presentation, looks delicious. Would have been also good to add some slices or dices of dasheen tuber to the mix.

Sade Phillips you are so right that's not the way to make it

Where can I buy the dasheen leaf in America would I have to order it

Is there more of an health benefit to either peeling or not peeling the stem?

we peel the stem because it tends to scratch your tongue or mouth on the whole.people who are sensitive that get hives very fast ..the stem causes and allergic reaction which can be very very bad.

You know in 2021 I just became a vegetarian and I'm trying to find callaloo I don't know what stores have it also that looks delicious 😋

That is a good cleanse for the stomach........

That was a Dahl gutnee though not a swizzle stick

HOW DO YOU MAKE THE DASHING

In America we have collard greens kale mustard greens Poke Salad but the first time I had this kind of greens I didn't want anything else

it look rell nice an tasty wen finished, but it missing the claws that normally stick out of it lols.

Oh gosh man, I rememda my grandmodda used to mek dis wid crab, and lil pieces of pig tail.

My parents did it different. You put too much oil. The callaloo will turn out oily.

Is that what they call Bhagi?@Amithirus.

The Trini Callaloo is OK but nothing beats that Guyanese cow pen Callaloo Bhajee. Boil that down with some coconut milk, a wiri-wiri pepper, and a piece of salt or fresh fish and what a dish. The Bhajee callaloo grows wild among your garden plants even here in the US. I don't pull themt out as wild. Instead, I let them grow until I get enough for a meal out of their leaves. Cut the leaves and the stems will shoot more leaves.

We still peel😮

I need a swizzle stick

ok.i now c pumpkin fresh coconut milk we add

come on chef yuh know yuh hit the blender and did not use the swizzle stick.....

macaroni pie callaloo bake pork rice and potato salad on sundays

That's dominica National dish😋

The Tobago way of making curried crab and dumplings was ok but Tobago wasn't the first to discover the making of this dish and also when preparing the crabs before cooking,you must remove the toes of the crab so the curry sauce can enter throughout the crab legs. Otherwise it was a good attempt to show how the recipe for making this Trinidad and Tobago dish.

Belle recette avec le lait mais je penses que ça joue beaucoup sur la conservation.

i like more calalloo like dish in phillippines, it is called laing

I never peel my bush I used everything,

Peeling the stems likely gets rid of the majority of the anti-nutrients. Old people likely did it for a reason.