Stir-fried Sweet Potato Leaves with Minced Garlic
Sweet potato leaves are a common countryside crop, often fed to pigs or discarded. Yet these bright green, tender leaves are highly nutritious—outranking spinach and celery in most nutrients, with carotenoid levels 3 times higher than carrots and over 600 times higher than fresh corn or taro.
Ingredients
sweet potato leaves
as needed
minced garlic
as needed
pork belly
as needed
white sugar
as needed
salt
as needed
cooking wine
as needed
Instructions
1
Step 1
Fresh tender tips of freshly picked sweet potato leaves.
2
Step 2
Wash the sweet potato leaves and cut them into sections.
3
Step 3
Cut the slightly fatty pork belly into slices, place in a pot and simmer over low heat to render the fat (sweet potato leaves are cold in nature, adding some fatty meat makes the dish more fragrant).
4
Step 4
Add the minced garlic and stir-fry over low heat until fragrant.
5
Step 5
First add the sweet potato leaf stems and stir-fry for a while.
6
Step 6
Then add the leaves and stir-fry.
7
Step 7
Add salt, cooking wine, a small amount of white sugar to season, and stir-fry until evenly combined.
