Callaloo Trinidad

Ingredients

• 1 dozen dasheen leaves
• 8 ochroes
• ½ cup of finely chopped onion
• ½ kilo of salt meat or pork (¼ pound)
• 2 crabs or crab meat
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• chives, salt and pepper
• ¼ teaspoon of Angostura aromatic bitters
• 1.8 liters of water (2 quarts)
• 1 whole hot green pepper

Procedures

1. Strip stalks and mid ribs from dasheen leaves, wash, roll them and cut into fine shreds.
2. Clean crabs.
3. Combine chopped ochroes, dasheen, and onion in large saucepan, add 1 cup of water and simmer one hour.
4. In a separate pot, boil the salt meat to remove excess salt.
5. Then, add to the main pot the salt meat, whole green pepper, 1.8 liters of water.
6. Simmer ½ hour.