Callaloo soup

• 1 large crab
• 20 or so okra (ladies fingers), chopped
• 1lb callaloo (substitute spinach leaves), shredded
• 1 pint coconut milk
• 3 tablespoons ground nut oil
• 6 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• bunch of spring onions (10-12), chopped
• Hot pepper sauce (e.g. Tabasco), to taste
• pinch dried thymeblack peppersalt

Optional ingredients :- a couple of ounces of salt cod or salt pork.

Fry onions until soft. Add the thyme,pepper,salt, garlic and cook fora few minutes. Put in the okra and callaloo ,cover and simmer gentlyfor 5 minutes or so. Add the coconut milk and bring back to simmerthen put in the crab meat (including the cracked claws), the springonions and Tabasco. Cover and simmer on a low heat for 30 minutes.

For a less 'chunky' soup remove claws and divest them of theirmeat. Blend in a liquidiser then add lots of cream to taste. Re-heatgently.