Recipe Of the Moment.

ITAL SOUP

Ingredients:

1 Cho cho
1 pound of yam
1 green pepper
3 spring onions, celery
2 pints of water
1/2 Small cabbage
1 pound of pumpkin
2 cloves of garlic1 pound of callaloo (Spinach)
1/2 pound of carrots
2 medium sized tomatoes
1/2 pound of sweet potato

Prepare the vegetables, first peel the yam,
sweet potatoes including the pumpkin, cut in
large dices and removing the seeds from the
pumpkin.Wash callaloo carefully, trim away any thick
stems and chop. Coarsely chop cabbage having
carefully discarded outer leaves, peel then
slice the carrots.Next peel the cho cho, cut it lengthways in
quarters then remove the heart.Next roughly dice the cho cho and then green
pepper, peel and chop the tomatoes and slice
the spring onions.Put the pumpkin along with root vegetables in
a large saucepan with water.Bring saucepan to a boil and simmer for about
10 minutes. Add callaloo to pan with cabbage,
cho cho, pepper, and chopped tomatoes, spring
onions.Finally, season with plenty of freshly ground
black pepper and simmer for twenty minutes or
more until cooked.



Serves 4 to 6 People

Ital or I-tal is food approved of in the Rastafari movement. The word derives from the English word vital, with the initial syllable replaced by i.^[1] This is done to many words in the Rastafari vocabulary to signify the unity of the speaker with all of nature.