One of the most common ways to enjoy sweet potatoes is by baking them. Sweet potato leaves have various health benefits such as improving immune function, stopping bleeding, lowering blood sugar, detoxifying the body, and preventing night blindness. Regular consumption of sweet potato leaves can prevent constipation, protect vision, keep the skin smooth, and slow down the aging process. There are many ways to prepare sweet potato leaves, and here are a few options. Regardless of the method, they will provide a fresh, tender, fragrant, and delicious experience.
【Ways to Prepare Sweet Potato Leaves】
1. Garlic Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves: Wash the tender stems of sweet potato leaves, blanch them in boiling water, then rinse with cold water and cut into segments. Peel the garlic and crush it into a paste. Heat the wok, add vegetable oil and heat until it is 40% hot, then stir-fry the garlic paste until fragrant. Add the tender sweet potato leaf stems and stir-fry. Add fresh broth, salt, and cooking wine, and stir-fry until well-seasoned. Add monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, then sprinkle the remaining garlic paste and mix well.
2. Stewed Winter Melon with Sweet Potato Leaves: Take 60g of fresh sweet potato leaves and 100g of winter melon, stew and consume. This is mainly used to treat diabetes with lung and stomach dry-heat syndrome, characterized by restlessness, excessive thirst, dry mouth and tongue, thin body with good appetite, redness at the edge of the tongue, dry yellow coating, and rapid pulse.
3. Use sweet potato leaves to make soup or add them when cooking porridge.
4. Cook sweet potato leaves together with peanut or soybean flour to make a tofu-like mixture.
5. Oyster Sauce Sweet Potato Leaves: Remove the old stems from the sweet potato leaves and wash them with clean water. Cut the red chili pepper into strips. Flatten the garlic cloves and remove the skin. Mix 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch with 3 tablespoons of water to make cornstarch water. Boil water in a pot and add 1 tablespoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of oil. Blanch the sweet potato leaves until they become soft, then remove and drain the water. Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in a hot wok, sauté the garlic and red pepper over low heat, then pour in 1 cup of water. Add 3 tablespoons of oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon of rice wine, 1/3 tablespoon of sugar, and 1/5 tablespoon of salt. Mix well and bring to a boil. Add the cornstarch water to thicken the sauce. Stir-fry the blanched sweet potato leaves evenly and serve.
6. Take the fresh and tender leaf tips and blanch them in boiling water. Season them with sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, chili oil, mustard, ginger juice, and other condiments to make a cold dish. It has a tender green appearance and can whet the appetite.
7. Stir-fry sweet potato leaves with sliced meat. The dish will be fragrant and sweet, with a unique flavor.
