How to make sweet potato leaves

Sweet potato leaves are actually the leaves of the sweet potatoes that people often eat. Many people will throw away the sweet potato leaves when eating sweet potatoes, but from a nutritional point of view, the whole sweet potato is very nutritious, including the sweet potato leaves. The nutritional value of sweet potato leaves is also relatively high, and there are many ways to eat them, and many delicious foods can be made. So what are the specific ways to cook sweet potato leaves?

1. Sweet potato leaf cake

Wash the sweet potato leaves; boil them in water and set aside; blanch the blanched sweet potato leaves in cold water for a while; squeeze out the water and chop them into small pieces. Take a large bowl, add white flour and cornmeal, eggs, baking soda and salt; add a little water and stir into a paste and set aside; preheat the pancake pan, brush it with sesame oil, pour the batter into the pancake pan with a spoon and fry until both sides are golden brown.

2. Sweet potato leaf steamed buns

Wash the sweet potato leaves, drain the water, chop them into small pieces (it doesn’t have to be too small, just cut them back and forth a few times with a knife), put them into the pre-fermented dough bowl, add a little salt, and knead them into the dough. Then divide the dough into small pieces and knead them into steamed buns. Put them into a pot of warm water and let them rise for about 30 minutes. Then start steaming over high heat, and after the water boils, switch to medium-low heat and steam for 25 minutes. Garlic juice: 4-5 cloves of garlic, use a garlic press to press it into garlic paste, add light soy sauce, sesame oil, a little salt and a little boiled water.

3. Steamed sweet potato leaves

Remove the old stems of fresh sweet potato leaves and leave the leaves. After washing them clean, drain off excess water. Use a sieve to lightly sift a layer of flour on them and turn them over with chopsticks so that each sweet potato leaf is covered with a thin layer of flour. Put water in a steamer, add steamer tray and cover with steaming cloth and bring to boil. Add the mixed sweet potato leaves, steam for 5 minutes until cooked and turn off the heat. Peel the garlic and mix it with salt and tung oil to make garlic juice. Add appropriate amount of light soy sauce and sesame oil for seasoning. Pour the prepared garlic juice on the steamed sweet potato leaves and it is ready to eat.