Crab & Callaloo Soup

Crab and Callaloo Soup Photo by Cynthia Nelson

If you want food that feeds the soul, a bowl of Crab and Callaloo Soup can do the job. It will calm the nerves, slow you down and shut out the noise in your head. It is a soup to savour.

20151011in good tasteThick, silky, and creamy, each spoonful slides smoothly across the tongue. If you eat it with dumplings, the chew is hearty, and the crab, well, that’s the prize in the bowl.

Abandon the spoon and use your hands to pick up the crab, then lick, suck, crack and pry it open to get to the sweet crab meat.

Use the freshest ingredients to make this soup; this means also using freshly squeezed coconut milk. However, if you only have access to canned coconut milk, then use it but dilute the canned coconut milk using a 1:1.5 ratio (for every cup of canned coconut milk, dilute it with 1 ½ cups of