Another ‘Asian veg’ I love: sweet potato leaves (also known as ‘yam leaves’ or ‘yam tips’ here)
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Another ‘Asian veg’ I love: sweet potato leaves (also known as ‘yam leaves’ or ‘yam tips’ here)
I get them in a bag marked ‘yam tips’ from the Chinese market. Back home in SE Asia, this veg was as common as spinach. Often eaten in a stir fry with sambal, but also often added to soups and such
When I get a giant bag, I parboil them with salt and keep it in a Tupperware and use over a week in anything (just added some to a frittata instead of spinach)
Yam Leaves, Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves
Yam leaves or sweet potato leaves are a healthy, delicious, under-rated vegetable that you can find at more and more Asian grocery stores these days. Here's how to prepare your own stir fried yam leaves (炒地瓜苗).
The Woks of Life (thewoksoflife.com)
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
Also a good time to always say (every time I say ‘sambal’)
When following a Malaysian or Indonesian recipe asking for sambal
DO NOT USE ROOSTER BRAND SAMBAL OELEK
You will regret it (it’s way too sour most of our food)
Okay to use it if it’s an Asian recipe from the U.S.!
But we don’t really use that type of sambal for cooking. Look instead for sambal terasi or sambal belachan at Asian grocers (not vegan)
Or sambal matah (usually vegan)
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Veronika Cheplyginareplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte besides oelek I've only had terasi and it's sooo different
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@skinnylatte the couple of times we grew sweet potatoes, a groundhog came through and ate all the leaves. I figured they must be pretty good
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Karin! last edited by [email protected]
@nirak hehe yep I like it a lot
Turmeric leaves are also very good and fragrant, often used to make curries
If you grow turmeric for long enough eventually they’ll sprout some
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Veronika Cheplygina last edited by
@DrVeronikaCH lots of different styles! Drives me nuts when people use them interchangeably
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@skinnylatte I grew sweet potatoes for many years and never knew the greens were edible. Then I saw a huge pile of them at the chinese veg stand at the farmer's market. Me: Are these sweet potato greens? Vendor: Yam leaves! Very tasty!
They really are delish. And also if you grow sweet potatoes you have SO MUCH of them.
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@lemay I loveee sweet potato!
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@skinnylatte Love them
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Opiniated Charles last edited by [email protected]
@karlieeuh there is a Malaysian cooking person who does videos about Peranakan food out of Munich
I wonder where she shops!
Paris has a ton of good Asian grocers if you’re moving
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@skinnylatte
I will look for the Munich Peranakan cooking videosParis would be food paradise, but it is real-estate / transport hell.
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@karlieeuh nyonya cooking is her channel
