Farming Staple · Sweet Potato Leaf Sauce
Sauce Feuilles de Patate Douce (Sweet Potato Leaf Sauce)
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The sauce is made from the leafy vines of the sweet potato plant rather than its roots, a way of getting a second harvest, greens as well as tubers, from the same crop.
Young sweet potato leaves are pounded and simmered with oil, onion, and often fish or meat into a soft, everyday green sauce, served over rice or tô. It's an unassuming but near-daily dish in the farming villages around Sikasso.
Why it's made this way: In the yam- and sweet-potato-growing farmland around Sikasso, using the vine's leaves as well as its roots reflects a practical, waste-nothing approach to a crop families here grow themselves.
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