Young and beautiful…

I mentioned in my blogpost not too long ago that I planted some sweet potato leaves by simply sticking the stalks/stems from the bundle that I bought into the ground…

The ones in this plot did not do too well – the leaves started turning yellow like they were withering so I got rid of all of it and right now, I am using that plot to plant the stalks of the cangkok manis that I harvested that day for my fried bihun with the canned clams in soya sauce. I did have some more of those sweet potato leaves on the other side at the end of my vegetable plots and yes, those grew very well and were starting to crawl all over the place. That was why I decided to harvest all of it that day.

I sliced the stems of the leaves into two…

…which wasn’t really necessary, actually – I just felt like doing it (this is something you would do with paku or wild jungle fern too) but when you buy these leaves from outside, they are usually too old, hard to chew and doing this would help make it easier to eat and the leaves would be harder too…not like mine, so young and beautiful.

I like these leaves fried with sambal hay bee (udang kering/dried prawns), the same way we cook paku, kangkong, ladies fingers and even long beans but my missus just cooked some kut kut chai (slippery vegetable) that way the day before so I decided to do it differently.

I chopped a whole lot of garlic and got ready some prawns…

…and the leftover seasoning from my Daddy Mee instant noodles, chicken flavour.

I fried the garlic in some oil till golden brown, threw in the prawns followed by the leaves and when it was more or less done, I sprinkled the seasoning all over it, dished out and served…

Yes, it was very nice and yes, I replanted some of the stalks in the hope that more will grow and perhaps when I harvest it the next time around, I would have enough for two meals!