Callaloo

This creole dish is a wonderful stew of local plants and vegetables, and can be used as a main dish or side.

Ingredients:

1 Bundle Dasheen bush or Taro leaves

3-4 okras

1 cup Caribbean pumpkin cubed

1 Scotch bonnet pepper

4 chives

1 onion

1 cup coconut milk

Directions:

1. Strip the stalks and midrib from the dasheen leaves (if using) and wash well

2. Wash and cut up the ochroes and seasonings

3. Put all the ingredients, except the butter, into a pot with the boiling water and simmer until everything is

soft (keep the hot pepper near the surface)

4. Remove the pepper and blend the ingredients into a puree

5. Add the butter

Recipe/Image from: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=611317