Trini-style chicken & provision soup
Day 1, Week 3
I grew up eating soup like this, and referring to the ‘vegetables’ as provision. In fact… I never knew about any other type of soup until I was a teen!
Ingredients:
1 chicken (cut into small pieces)
2 potatoes
4 sweet potatoes
2 cassavas (yucca)
2 green figs
2 plantains
� cup dahl
3 stalks of celery
green onions
3 carrots (cut into slices)
1 onion (chopped)
garlic (crushed)
hot pepper
� head of cauliflower
6-8 okra
goldenray butter
Guidelines:
The first thing you need to do is semi-cook the chicken…
Season the chicken with onions, garlic, pepper and salt
In a medium size saucepan, caramelize about 2 tbsp of sugar
Add the chicken pieces, remove from heat once they are about half-way cooked
Caramelize � cup sugar in a large pot, add carrots, celery, dahl, chives and then all the other veggies (cut up into bite-size pieces), except okra
Cook a little, and then add the semi-cooked chicken
Add the okra
Add water until all veggies are covered
Boil on medium heat until the veggies are tender
Once the soup is about done, chicken is cooked, and the veggies are tender, add the goldenray butter
Add salt and pepper to taste
You can substitute the chicken for any kind of meat… we LOVE it with beef, and maybe ox-tail 
– recipe courtesy of my mom, and her mom…
