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Chop-Up

Name: Chop-Up
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Antigua and Barbuda
Ingredients: 2 Eggplant; 8 Okra; 1 bunch Spinach; 1/2 Onion; 20g Butter; 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 400ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Eggplant, okra, and spinach boiled and mashed — Antigua's mashed vegetable side.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chop-up is Antiguan home cooking: vegetables such as eggplant, okra, and spinach are boiled together and mashed with butter, salt, and pepper. It's eaten with ducana and salt cod. Simple, yet packed with the vegetables' flavor.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in an Antiguan home, a bowl of mashed green and purple vegetables sits beside plates of salt cod and dumplings.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Eggplant 2
Okra 8
Spinach 1 bunch
Onion 1/2
Butter 20g
Salt 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 400ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and dice the eggplant and boil with the okra and onion in water for 15 minutes.
Add the spinach and boil 3 minutes.
Drain.
Add the butter and mash coarsely with a wooden spatula as you mix.
Season with salt and pepper.

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