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| Mouth watering Sweet Potato Leaves |
In Sierra Leone our
staple food is rice and we have this with a variety of greens we call “plasas”.
“Plasas” are green leaf sauces cooked with assorted meat and smoked fish. Most
of the green leaf dishes have a similar style of preparation however, I must
add different indigenous tribes have their own style of cooking but all result
to a delicious mouth watering end product. In this post, I decided to cook and
blog about one of Sierra Leone’s hearty green dish sweet potato leaves “petehteh
leaf" as it is known across Sierra Leone. This dish is a very delicious sauce full vitamins and iron that helps
with the flow of oxgen in your blood. I hope you enjoy
reading and hopefully get to try my own version of this recipe. Aprons on!!!
Serving for 4
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| part ingredients |
Ingredients
3 packs of already chopped sweet potato Leaves
200ml of Palm oil
Pack of Ogiri
Tin of Butter beans
4 table spoons Peanut butter (smooth)
Assorted meat of your choice
Smoked fish
Scotch bonnet pepper (to your taste)
2 medium sized Onions
Maggie seasoning (2 cubes)
Salt (to your taste)
3 okra
Directions
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| Chopped and washed potato leaves |
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| Pot ready to boil with meats and onion, pepper ogiri paste |
1.
Start with washing then bringing your meat to boil until tender for approximately
30-40 minutes.
2.
Next wash the chopped potato leaves and leave it in a colander to drain
any excess water.
3.
Next blend
onions and scotch pepper with ogiri. This should look like a thick smooth
paste.
4.
After the meat
has boiled, add the above paste mixture and your meat in a medium sized cooking
pot, add 2 pints of water and bring to boil for about 20 minutes.
5.
Whilst the pot
boils, mix the peanut better with 50ml of water so it is slightly watery.
6.
Add peanut butter mixture, palm oil, maggie seasoning, and salt after the 20 minutes or until you have
a thick soupy consistence.
7.
Then add the washed potato leaves with the smoked fish. Mix the pot and leave pot to boil for a further 15min in medium
heat.
8.
Finally chop and crush okra and add to the boiling pot. Turn the heat
low and let the sauce simmer for a further 5 min or until the palm oil is
floating.
Voila! Dish is done!
Voila! Dish is done!
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| Tongue smiling dish |
