7 delicious and easy-to-make dishes from sweet potato leaves for family meals

Sweet potato leaves are a wild vegetable, easy to grow, familiar to Vietnamese people, and cheap.

Sweet potato leaves are the young leaves and shoots of the sweet potato plant. This is a familiar ingredient in Vietnamese dishes. The fiber in sweet potato leaves helps promote digestion and reduce constipation. In addition, sweet potato leaves also have the effect of cooling the body and clearing heat.

In traditional medicine, sweet potato leaves are considered a neutral and non-toxic herb. Sweet potato leaves have more nutrients than sweet potatoes. According to research, the vitamin content in sweet potato leaves is three times higher than that of sweet potatoes. In particular, vitamin C in sweet potato leaves is 5 times higher than that of sweet potatoes and riboflavin (vitamin B2) in sweet potato leaves is 10 times higher than that of sweet potatoes.

Specifically, 100g of sweet potato leaves contain about 22 calories of energy, 91.8g of water, 2.6g of protein, 2.8g of starch, 11mg of vitamin C, along with 900mg of vitamin B. In addition, sweet potato leaves also provide essential minerals such as 48mg of calcium, 54mg of phosphorus, 2.7mg of iron, which are very beneficial for the body in maintaining overall health.

Sweet potato leaves can be processed into many different delicious dishes, from simple dishes like boiled or stir-fried sweet potato leaves to soups, helping you easily add green vegetables to your daily meals.

Below are delicious dishes made from sweet potato leaves:

Boiled sweet potato leaves

Boiled sweet potato leaves is a simple and rustic dish that you can make with sweet potato leaves. Just boil the sweet potato leaves in boiling water and add a little salt, and you will have a plate of boiled vegetables that is both refreshing and nutritious for your family meal.

Boiled sweet potato leaves have a sweet and light flavor, very suitable to eat with braised dishes such as braised fish or braised meat.

Stir-fried sweet potato leaves with garlic

Stir-fried sweet potato leaves with garlic is an easy-to-prepare yet very appealing dish. First, pick and wash the sweet potato leaves, then blanch them in boiling water to make them crispy and bright in color. After removing them, soak them in ice cold water to keep them crispy and green.

Next, saute garlic until fragrant, add vegetables and stir-fry over high heat and season to taste. Stir-fried sweet potato leaves with garlic has a natural sweetness from the vegetables, combined with the aroma of garlic, making it easy to eat and suitable for family meals.

Stir-fried sweet potato leaves with beef

A simple but nutritious dish is stir-fried sweet potato leaves with beef. Sweet potato leaves are stir-fried over high heat until cooked through, with just the right amount of crunchiness. The beef is soft and fragrant, soaked in spices, making the dish more appealing.

Enjoy this dish with hot rice and spicy garlic chili soy sauce, you will definitely not be able to stop enjoying it.

Sweet potato soup with shrimp

Besides boiling, this vegetable is also used to make soup with fresh shrimp or dried shrimp.

The hot bowl of soup has an eye-catching green color. The broth has a sweet taste with fresh, firm shrimp. In addition, the soft, well-cooked sweet potato leaves are very appetizing.

Besides fresh shrimp, you can also use dried shrimp to cook soup with sweet potato leaves. The delicious taste of the dish is guaranteed to be almost identical to the original version.

The sweet potato leaves are soft, fragrant, and rich, the dried shrimp are chewy, and the broth is rich and sweet. Enjoy the soup while it's still hot to double its deliciousness.

Chicken and sweet potato salad

Sweet potato leaves are mixed with shredded chicken, onions and the fish sauce mixed with the salad is seasoned with rich spices. This creates a salad with many attractive flavors.

Each strand of sweet potato leaves is crispy, soaked in the sweet and sour dressing. The chicken is fatty and rich, extremely stimulating to the taste buds.

Sweet potato and clam soup

Without many ingredients or sophisticated spices, you can still cook for the whole family a hot, sweet soup with sweet potato leaves and clam meat.

The clam and sweet potato soup was just finished, hot and steaming. The clam meat was plump and firm, and the sweet potato leaves were crispy and chewy.

All ingredients combine harmoniously with a sweet, flavorful broth, served with white rice for a delicious meal.

Sweet potato leaves cooked with minced meat

If you are looking for a refreshing soup to cool down your family on hot days, don't miss this dish of sweet potato leaves cooked with minced meat.

This soup is simple, quick to cook and is sure to make your meal more delicious and appealing.

Sweet potato leaves are cooked until soft, the broth has a sweet taste from the pork, seasoned with rich spices. The soup is delicious when eaten with hot white rice!

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