Kalaloo Virgin Islands Style Recipes

Steps:

• In a covered soup pot, saute the onions and garlic in the oil on low heat for about 5 minutes, until softened. Add the ginger, turmeric, coriander, thyme, and allspice and saute for another minute, stirring to prevent sticking.
• Stir in the water or stock, add the sweet potatoes, and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes, then stir in the callaloo or kale. (If you are using spinach, do not add it yet.) Add the okra and simmer for another 5 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, lime juice, salt and spinach, if you are using it, and cook for another 3 or 4 minutes, until all of the vegetables are tender. Add more salt or lime juice to taste and stir in the coconut milk, if you like.

Steps:

• Soak meats overnight in cold water to remove excess fat and salt. Cook meat and conchs in 2 qts water till soft.
• When meat is half cooked, add fish and crab and continue cooking till meat is tender.
• Peel eggplant. Add to pot with meat mixture. When soft, remove and chop fine. Return to pot.
• Wash greens, and chop fine or put through grinder.
• Cut up okras and add with greens to meat and eggplant mixture.
• Cook till greens become a dark green color. Continue to cook about 5 minutes longer. Taste, add a little salt if needed, and hot pepper if desired. If mixture is too thick, add 1-2 cups water.

Steps:

• In tall glass filled with ice, combine passionfruit juice, orange juice, ginger ale, rum, and lime juice.

Steps:

• Place fish with all ingredients into a saucepan and cook gently until fish is cooked, about 20 to 30 minutes.
• Place frozen okra in boiling water. Cook until just barely tender.
• In a medium size saucepan, bring 2½ cups water to a boil.
• To make fungi that is free of lumps, mix about ¼ cup of the cornmeal with ¾ cup water in a separate small bowl. Then, add this mixture back into the larger pot of boiling water.
• Let cornmeal cook for about a minute, then add the rest of the cornmeal into the pan in a slow steady stream, while stirring constantly.
• Add hot cooked okra to cooked cornmeal. Stir well.
• Then, stir in the butter, salt and pepper, to taste.
• Simmer for about 5 minutes more.