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Chicken Back Soup
Chris De La Rosa’s family stew chicken soup combines chicken legs with backs attached, ground provisions and flour dumplings.
About Chicken Back Soup
Chris De La Rosa’s family stew chicken soup combines chicken legs with backs attached, ground provisions and flour dumplings. This version selects his stated traditional water and dasheen-leaf options within the Caribbean family preparation.
Caramelised brown sugar shapes the stew base, with green seasoning, pimento peppers, ginger and herbs adding aromatic depth. Coconut milk enriches the broth and the dumpling dough, alongside the vegetables and chicken.
Pieces of chicken, root vegetables and okra remain in the substantial soup. Flour dumplings share the broth, and scallions and parsley finish the serving.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chicken Back Soup
Chris De La Rosa’s Caribbean family stew chicken soup, traditional water and dasheen-leaf branch.
- CarrotBase
- PumpkinBase
- EddoesBase
- Sweet potatoBase
- Yukon Gold potatoesBase
- CassavaBase
- Chicken legs with backs attachedProteinIngredient page not linked
- LemonSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Black pepperSeasoning
- Worcestershire sauceSeasoning
- Caribbean green seasoningSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Pimento peppersAromatic
- TomatoBase
- GingerAromatic
- Olive oilCooking medium
- Brown sugarSweetener
- WaterLiquid
- OnionAromatic
- Bay leavesAromatic
- ThymeAromatic
- Scotch bonnet pepperSeasoning
- Coconut milkLiquid
- Dasheen leavesBase
- OkraBase
- ScallionsGarnish
- ParsleyGarnish
- All-purpose wheat flourBinder
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pumpkin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Eddoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sweet potato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Yukon Gold potatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader potato identity, actual cultivar selected.
- Cassava: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Chicken legs with backs attached: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Specific attached cut selected; no assumed back-only recipe or exact verified cut mapping.
- Lemon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual chicken-washing/contact ingredient122, not recommended as safety treatment.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Worcestershire sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact compound/brand formula unprovided, possible fish or other product allergens unresolved; no absence or invented positive.
- Caribbean green seasoning: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named compound full formula unprovided; linked recipe not imported.
- Pimento peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Brown sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Browned stew base and dumpling sugar consolidated.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit traditional water-only broth branchFAQ139 selected over stock plus cooking/washing water.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bay leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Thyme: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scotch bonnet pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual broth and dumpling dough allocations; product formula unprovided.
- Dasheen leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Traditional dasheen-bush option expressly given128, selected over spinach/cabbage alternatives.
- Okra: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scallions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Conventional all-purpose wheat for actual flour dumplings.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Saint LuciaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian Cuisine
- Saint Lucian Creole CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.