Corn Soup

This nourishing and tasty soup is always available in Trinidad from roadside vendors, some of whom serve nothing else. To serve 4-6

6-8 full corn
onion chopped
2 cloves garlic chopped
thyme parsely salt pepper
4 oz split peas
for dumplings plain flour (6 oz) tsp baking powder tsp salt
2 pints of good stock
2 carrots 1 potato
1 scotch bonnet

saute onions and garlic in oil and add split peas, after 3 minutes then water (about 1 pint), let the split peas cook until soft (30 -45 minutes). Cool and blend. Add stock, thyme whole parsley chopped, half corn kernels cut from cob rest cut cobs into 1 inch pieces and add. Add sliced carrots and quartered potato salt and pepper. add 1 west indies pepper whole (don't break). Cook slowly for 30 minutes, then make dumpling mix using flour baking powder (not a lot) and good teaspoon salt. mix with cold water to a stiff dough. roll and cut into pieces or chop of 1 inch a time and roll in hand into flattened spear heads. Add to soup and contiue to cook for another 30 minutes very slow. The consistency should be thickish but not porridgy.

Bahamian Fish Soup

I had this recipe in an authentic local restaurant in Grand Bahama with Johny Bread and its the best breakfast i ever had in my life. Who would think of soup?


4 fair sized grouper steaks
2 large onions diced
4 strips chopped bacon
6 diced potatoes
2 celery sticks chopped
1 or 2 bird peppers
1 lime cut in half
1 qt good clear fish stock

Cooking instructions: You will need a relatively large cooking pot. Combine both onions and bacon in the pot. Cook until onions soften, stirring regularly. Remove from heat. In a medium size pot, bring potatoes to a boil, cooking only 1/2 way, remove from heat, strain. In the large pot, add stock to onions and bacon until pot is about 1/2 full. Combine and add the following ingredients. Potatoes, salt, celery, bird peppers, and squeeze 1/2 lime into mixture. Bring to boil for about 10 minuets. Add grouper fillet, boiling for 5-8 minuets before removing from heat.
Total cooking time: 35 mins Serves: 4