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Trinidad Corn Soup

A traditional corn soup recipe for this popular Trini street food. Made with split peas, corn and dumplings this soup is commonly an after fete snack especially around carnival time
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Resting time 1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 9
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Caribbean
Calories: 402
Ingredients Method Nutrition

Ingredients
  

  • 6 ears of fresh corn
  • 2 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1/4 cup onion chopped
  • 1 celery stalk chopped
  • 1 large carrot sliced into discs
  • 1/2 cup diced green bell peppers
  • 1/2 cup diced red bell peppers
  • 2/3 cup yellow split peas
  • 1 scotch bonnet pepper
  • Pepper sauce to taste
  • Salt & Pepper to taste
  • 1 1/2 cups coconut milk make your own
  • 1 med tania or sweet potato, diced
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 2 cups stock + 1 cup stock
  • 6 cups water
  • 2 leaves shado beni chopped
  • 2 tablespoons oil
For Dumplings
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup water

Method
 

  1. Cut 5 ears of corn into about 2-inch pieces and set aside.
  2. Shave off corn kernels off of the remaining corn cob
  3. Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan, over med-high heat.
  4. Add onions, garlic, and celery to oil and sauté till onions are opaque.
  5. Add split peas and shaved corn and stir well
  6. Add thyme to the pot and sauté another 2 minutes
  7. Add 3 cups water, 2 cups stock, tania and shado beni to the pot, and bring to boil.
  8. Lower stove to a low boil until split peas is cooked (about 30 minutes) Note: add more water if split peas is not soft enough and more boil time is needed
  9. Once split peas are softened, use the back of a spoon to mash them up a bit.
  10. Add coconut milk, scotch bonnet pepper, and 3 cups water and bring to a slow boil
  11. Make dumplings at this point and break into balls or roll into logs
  12. Add corn discs, dumplings, carrots, and bell peppers to the pot
  13. Add salt and pepper and pepper sauce to taste
Dumplings
  1. Knead water and flour together
  2. Shape into balls

Nutrition

Calories: 402kcal

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