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Callaloo (/ ˌ k æ l ə ˈ l uː / KAL-ə-LOO, [1] Jamaican Patois:; many spelling variants, such as kallaloo, calaloo, calalloo, calaloux, or callalloo) [2] [3] is a plant used in popular dishes in many Caribbean countries, while for other Caribbean countries, a stew made with the plant is called callaloo. Cuisines, including the plant ...
In some countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dominica, the leaves and stem of the dasheen, or taro, are most often cooked and pureed into a thick liquid called callaloo, which is served as a side dish similar to creamed spinach. Callaloo is sometimes prepared with crab legs, coconut milk, pumpkin, and ...
Another popular dish in the Anglophone Caribbean is called "cook-up", or pelau. Ackee and saltfish is another popular dish that is unique to Jamaica. Callaloo is a dish containing leafy vegetables such as spinach and sometimes okra amongst others, widely distributed in the Caribbean, with a distinctively mixed African and indigenous character.
Callaloo may refer to: In cuisine: Callaloo, a Caribbean dish sometimes called pepperpot, made with the leaves of a plant also called "callaloo" Amaranthus, a genus of herb used to make the dish; Malanga, or Xanthosoma, a plant used to make the dish; Taro, a plant used to make the dish "Kalalou" is Haitian Kreyol for Okra; In academia:
Callaloo is often served with cornmeal coo coo, [9] plantain, cassava, sweet potatoes, dumplings, rice, and curried crab. [10] However Trinbagonian callaloo isn't prepared or served the same as Jamaican callaloo. [11] Pelau is a very popular rice-based dish in Trinidad and Tobago. As well as dhal and rice, rice and stewed chicken, pork, ox-tail ...
It is grown in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica to make the popular callaloo dish, [12] and in St. Kitts and Nevis to make tannia fritters. [13] It is also grown in West Africa, now a major producer, where it can be used as a replacement for yams in a popular regional dish called fufu. Xanthosoma is also grown as a crop in the Philippines.
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I restored the original images. Guettarda 07:08, 9 November 2005 (UTC) Yes.. the article states "Callaloo is almost always made with okra" so i changed those three small images with one small image. I don't mind the revert. I just thought maybe one image might look better than three on the page. sikander 18:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)