Harvesting & Cooking Sweet Potato Leaves

Hi guys! Some of you asked how I eat the sweet potato leaves so here it is! If you're wondering why my clothes are different, this video took me 2 days to shoot since it got dark after harvesting. Anyway, hope you enjoy. Have a wonderful, safe holiday season! XoXO
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[@nurunkhan2366]

After watching this I can't wait to harvest the leaves of my sweet potatoes which I just randomly plant coz it was growing in my kitchen.Thank you Windy!

[@cheryllannchersflair8519]

Thanks for this. The sweet potato vines in my garden are overflowing. I had no idea they were used as a stir fry. Love the idea of adding garlic and miso. I will try this.

[@LaureneAE]

This is now my favorite recipe for Sweet potato leaves !! So good - thank you!

[@wendiland]

Such a pleasure to hear! 🤗

[@kristinkulman3221]

Thanks Wendi, yesterday I didn't know that we can eat the sweet potato leaves, now I can't wait to try your recipe. Thanks for the recipe and the tip about rice wine vinegar and miso. That's so great. (My sweet potatoes sprouted, and now I know what to do).

[@maggygraham2218]

Thank you, going to try this tonight. My neighbor at our community garden just gave me a bunch of sweet potato leaves, and they are all clean now and ready to cook.

[@wendiland]

Can't make it any easier. Hope you'll like it :D

[@jacquelinefoster233]

I grew lots of sweet potatoes this summer, from which I have tons of leaves but I’ve never tried cooking or eating them. Thanks for sharing this video, I’m definitely gonna give it a try.

[@wendiland]

You can flavor it however you like -- like your spinach!

[@Rosalinda626]

I started following you because I love the part of how you cook and prepare your harvest. What to add to it. How to do it. More like this would so cool. It’s so simplified and down, ready to eats.

[@Aloha4You]

I agree. The nutritional info she shared was also appreciated!

[@martysgarden]

Just planted my first Sweet Potato crop for the season, and looking forward to giving this a try once they start growing! Thanks for the video Wendi! Happy Gardening Marty Ware (from Australia)

[@joyfulsoul1702]

Wow! Thanks for posting this video. My Mom & some other nature folks used to tell us about sweet potato leaves, but I never learnt how to prepare them. This makes so much sense, there's good nutritious foods all around us, if only we paid closer attention.

[@AshleenWoods]

This looks so tasty! I wasn't paying attention at the grocers and grabbed yam/sweat potato leaves instead of spinach. What a pleasant surprise to see how easy it is too cook these up! Thanks for sharing this video :3

[@wendiland]

Pleasant surprise - those are the best! Hope you’ll like it. :)

[@THEGLASSMANSWORLD]

I recently just learned we can eat the greens of sweet potatoes and they are extremely healthy and beneficial for us! I'm so glad I found your channel and video on how to harvest and cook them! I plan to share this new knowledge on a LiVE Stream in a few minutes when I show our sweet potatoes growing in an aquaponic system on top of our 10 gallon fish aquarium! Thanks for sharing! ❤️

[@wendiland]

Awesome! Sow what you learned 😄👍

[@robynwilliams7326]

Hi Wendy, I tried these greens once. They were greasy and spicy, I didn’t like them but still wanted to try growing sweet potatoes. You’re recipe looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it! It’s great to know I don’t have to waste my leaves!😋🌱

[@solfeinberg437]

Super informative - I've got sweet potatoe vines climbing everywhere - it's the only thing rocking in the garden. I figured there were some potatoes under there, but I just learned that the greens are edible! So stoked. I can have steamed greens probably every day for a month!

[@dobson777a]

My wife and I started a pretty decent sized garden this year and one of things we planted was sweet potatoes. I've never heard about eating sweet potato leaves so this video is quite a find. I'm going to go out and right now and pick some leaves and cook them up tonight. We love eating collards and other greens like mustard greens so I hope it's a very similar. thank you.

[@pluckingtheinterwebs970]

Did you try this yet? If so what did you think of it?

[@dobson777a]

@@pluckingtheinterwebs970 I think we must be towards the end of the season here in northeast Georgia because we haven't really had any new growth where we have the darker leaves available. Maybe we're getting close to where it's time to harvest the sweet potatoes. We just trimmed the ends of the vines where they were growing way outside the beds. Mas ybe this will spur new growth otherwise this might be something will have to wait and try for next year.

[@JeePnoY1]

Jus planted my 12 slips 2 weeks ago, using your videos on sweet potatoes 🍠 thank you! Can’t wait to Harvest both tubers and leafs 😋

[@markusgorelli5278]

I want to thank you for this video. Yours was the first one that I came across a few years ago where I discovered that you can eat sweet potato leaves. This year I have a great many patches started and I'm going to trim back some vines tomorrow as some are creeping over their borders - and I came back to remind myself how to cook a big batch lol. I have the ones with the more ornamental leaves - they look so pretty.

[@wendiland]

sounds fun! enjoy them! i imagine you can blanch then freeze them like spinach.

[@woody3307]

You're the greatest! Been years since I grew SPs, but they are on the list again. Thanks for the love, wisdom and inspiration!

[@Esperalzi-Esfaral]

Delicious! I love sweet potato leaves. I planted cuttings 2 weeks ago from a bundle of the veggie that I bought at the wet market. Getting bushier now, soon harvestable. I normally stir fry or cook as a watery soup or cook it in creamy coconut milk. When stir fry, I stir fry the leaves in pounded garlic-onion-chili-dried anchovies (or dried shrimp)-shrimp paste. These stuff coarsely pounded. As a watery soup, boil water till boiling, add salt, sugar, stock cubes (beef or chicken or fish), onion, garlic, chili and finally the veggie (I seperated leaves from stems and leaf stalks, add the stalk/stems first, then leaves). For coconut milk gravy, just add the coconut milk to the watery soup.

[@letsCOOKwithELLE]

Ooh wow, this is cool, we eat this in Congo 🇨🇩 as well , we call it Matembele 😊

[@aurelioandrade1141]

letsCOOKwithELLE Awesome :) I got to try :)

[@shoukathali4482]

letsCOOKwithELLE

[@MomsSelfReliance]

I never knew u could eat it. thanks

[@leonardpearlman4017]

Hey, a celebrity visitor! I learned about PONDU from your channel. I'm growing cassava... and there are so many leaves! So now I'm growing sweet potato... good old KZbin! How would we know about this stuff otherwise? Nobody I know thinks cassava leaves are edible, you know?

[@salomebahati5862]

@@aurelioandrade1141 Vraiment

[@federicosagun8243]

filipino cuisine boiled and add ginger chop onion pepper and vinegar as side dish salad.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

Hey, that sounds good, too. We need some variety here, once these vines get rolling, there's a lot of leaves!

[@iiomqhxney6710]

Federico Sagun YESS,

[@sureshrao9012]

@@iiomqhxney6710 s +,

[@markanthonymercado1195]

And dipped with bagoong or alamang 🤣

[@beatricewoods8377]

Yes my filipino friend fix for me very good.

[@janyskitchen9335]

It is amazing that you have so much in your garden. Sweet potato leaves are packed with nutrients!

[@evlynealeshire5850]

Unfortunately, the whole plant is high in oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is cumulative and quite toxic. ☹️

[@rbbiefah]

UP DATE : THIS WORKS with sweet potato leaves or moringa leaves : Cook field peas in a pressure cooker remove from heat and let cool a little > turn them into gravy with a commercial stick blender > add RAW sweet potato or fresh (or frozen RAW moringa leaves) > use the stick blender to fine grind the leaves into the gravy > grate fresh ginger over the gravy stir the ginger in and eat >>>you will feel very strong and energetic !!!

[@rbbiefah]

Just put 12 oz water in blender add some Frontier herbs tomato powder and throw in a couple of handfuls of moringa leaves pack with a carrot No nausea tastes meaty good protein boost I feel wonderful strong and ready !!! BTW Wendi is wonderful 🙂👍

[@tkmccoywv]

Hello Wendi, and thank you so much for this video. Thanks to you, I've been enjoying my sweet potato greens all summer. I love them! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@ross-smithfamily6317]

Love the simple recipe! I have a suggestion for prepping sweet potato leaves ... I cut them into strips so it's less awkward than eating long strings of leaves.

[@roses9339]

I have been cooking leaves but will now look for the Miso ingredient, I am not vegan but really don't enjoy red meat so leafy vegetables are a good replacement adding citrus which from my research allows the iron etc to be absorbed into the body. I will now look at your videos just found you which is great. I'm 65 and still experimenting. Thanks Rosemary

[@Syoma]

try it with coconut milk and kelp.

[@solfeinberg437]

In addition to not enjoying red meat, you can realize that it causes cancer and heart disease and is even insulinogenic, whereas greens reverse these issues.

[@mangofever4681]

I tried growing regular potato on Oahu, but they got blight and died. However, I didn't have any problems with Molokai sweet potatoes. Also, I bought some 11 inch fruit bags for my beef steak tomatoes and it worked. The fruit flies couldn't sting them, so I got a good harvest.

[@wendiland]

Glad you found something that works in your area! :D

[@nunyabiznes33]

Also wanted to plant all those potatoes that sprout in the kitchen but I'm in Manila which is very tropical and they just died here. The sweet potatoes though, they just grow like crazy, even in pots.

[@mangofever4681]

@@nunyabiznes33 We have a problem with a tomato stunting disease called Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus, so I bought some tomato seeds with this resistance and I am hoping I can over come this problem. I also ordered some silicone grafting clips to graft heirlooms on to these resistant type of tomato plant clones.

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@mangofever4681 you covered the heirloom tomatoes while waiting for the plant they'll get grafted on to grow? Did you tried to replant potatoes or the blight contaminate the soil and you can't grow potatoes for some time?

[@mangofever4681]

@@nunyabiznes33 I only grow sweet potato, nothing bothers the sweet potato in my area. Also, my chicken loves to eat the leaves, so I don't want to grow regular potatoes, since their leaves are poison.

[@babyblue8820]

Hey Wendi, that was delicious!! I used Okinawan sweet potato shoots and added some Mahi Mahi to my miso before I cooked them, and added a dash of crushed Hawaiian chili peppers at the end... besides that I stuck to your recipe and have a happy belly! Thank-you for your hard work on presenting this video/recipe👏💙🌼🌊🌅🌈

[@GerardGibney3]

Sounds BANGING. Good stuff!

[@cyrilmircovich7559]

BabyBlue 88 all kind sweet potato can eat them leave? i wana try to grow up them but i saw in market have color purple an orange. so i dont know wich one can et leave

[@theresecornelius812]

Never heard of this-awesome to learn!

[@nengobuilder1378]

i am 42 years, and always wondered why do white peoples chose to ignore this stuff. i was raised on this stuff, i dont even get a common flue lol :)

[@gardeningwithaloha5573]

Omg that looks delish! I've had sweet potato shootz blanched with tomato onion patis & opai it is so delish my mouth is watering thanks for the awesome video👍🏼

[@fatherofchickens7951]

The lighting when you prepped the garlic!❤️😍

[@Nattiieee968]

I really enjoy watching your videos because you're very calming and sweet and you give off such positive and happy energy. It really makes me happy =)

[@ishsaw1]

Gaaayyyyyy

[@milesandcoffee]

Hmmmmm...I'm growing sweet potatoes and wasn't sure if the beautiful leaves were edible. VOILA! I found your channel and now I am looking forward to stir frying those leaves when it's time to harvest the sweet potatoes! 🌱Also, thanks for demonstrating how to do that! 👍🏾

[@redsky7238]

Thank you! I just got several bags of sweet potato leaves from a neighbor and was wondering how to prepare them.

[@bobs5596]

i ate mine first time tonight. it was sooo good! i wish i had know about this my whole life, the vines are so easy to grow huge amounts.

[@madeleinecornwell4746]

I just harvested my okinawan purple sweet potatoes and snapped off the leaves. Looking for a good recipe, I came across your video. Thank you so much! I might doctor it up a little more, but definitely will be adding the miso... best stuff in the world!

[@aboutashow]

Thank you! We eat these leaves in Liberia too. It's my first time having fresh ones at my disposal, but I had no idea how to harvest them

[@WonderfullyMade_Lex]

Relatively new to your Channel but I'm LOVING IT!! Potato Leaves Are AWESOME. Think I may try your recipe. Thank you for always providing good content.

[@acoupleofpreppers]

Thank you for also sharing the nutritional value, good to know

[@janiceb4679]

Love that cute sweater! I have two different sweet potato plants (leaves differ in shape). I think this is because I've started plants from random potatoes that sprouted in the pantry. Are they all edible, or only certain strains of sweet potatoes?

[@diversitylove5460]

I swear I can smell it’s delicious

[@fishingpinky3165]

Sweet potato leave are now my favorite crop to grow in Central Florida. I even add the stems to my fried Okra in bacon grease.

[@wwsuwannee7993]

Very good...sweet potatoes are amazing plants...they have saved people around the world more than once. Thanks for the vid Wendi.

[@norwoodzomboy]

I was going to ask about the texture, but you answered that...textures! There are now a few varieties of Sweet Potato that will grow in the shorter growing seasons of Canada, so I'll try this. Question: can you harvest a few leaves from each plant while the Sweet Potatoes are growing or is it best to wait until they are mature?

[@ashwinihonnatti3180]

Yummy looking... I also grew sweet potato when it germinated after I had left it uncooked. Put it in a huge pot and the vines grew wild. I made a delicious south Indian curry. I never knew till then that even the vines of this plant are just as great... Thanks for sharing your recipe

[@phuongtruong4173]

hi wendi ! i like your channel so much and btw ,are you half vietnamese ?

[@soverealma]

Looks so delicious! I do my potato leaves same as your recipe, but for the miso, I use anchovies paste, delicious. Try it. 😀

[@mytzjohnson2560]

I love sweet potato leaves just blanch it and put some fermented fish,onion,ginger,hot pepper and vinegar hmmm yummy...thank you for this i will try this recipe

[@nancywells5626]

I am going to try this soon, since I am growing sweet potatoes in a little raised bed in the back yard.

[@babyblue8820]

wow! I'm a first time viewer of your Chanel and I just Subscribed...I noticed some sweet potato shoots in my grocery store today and had no idea that they were edible! I've been waiting to harvest my potatoes but now that I know I can eat those shoots...it's time to trim them lol😉 and cook um up with your recipe! 🌼🌊🌅🌈💙 here in Hawaii👍

[@MaryHernandez-db6ol]

Amazing. Didn’t know the leaves were edible. I shall try cooking this, thank you.

[@wendiland]

Hope you’ll like it! :)

[@zhandymakesit1014]

Thank you for the wonderful recipe! I have a question, I am growing sweet potato leaves using a sprouted sweet potato from Costco (Nature's Pride). I noticed the leaves are a bit different than the ones presented in your video...do the evangaline variety also have edible leaves? I read somewhere that the seeds and possibly the stems could contain an LSD-like compound, but I can't find much information on which specific varieties are safe! :/ Thanks Again! :)

[@Aloha4You]

Thanks so much for sharing what you do! I have a ton of sweet potato leaves in my yard and just learned that I could eat them! :-)

[@livelearn664]

Great video i just startedsome today trying to get sprouts. Looks delicious definitely getting miso paste

[@ljacree5764]

Oh boy! I'm going to try that recipe! Thanks!

[@brazilian-lady9175]

Great video! I did not know we can eat sweet potato leaves.. I need to try. Looks ymmy

[@federicosagun8243]

They are good additional veggie for maggi chicken noodles for a quick meal

[@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures]

Nice! I just ordered some miso for the first time, I've never had it before. I'm growing these sweet potato greens in my house LOL. Hoping to have something to eat harvested in my living room! 🤣

[@CaptTurbo]

Such a doll! She can cook for me anytime! ;)

[@nancyfreeman733]

Thank you so .much for explaining exactly how to use them!!!

[@tkmccoywv]

Definitely need to try this!

[@lauriewestenhaver284]

Thank u for sharing. I will be trying my sweet potato leaves soon as they're ready to harvest. Yum. But my leaves aren't a dark green. Lighter/brighter. I wonder why? They are plentiful ,look healthy. They were planted 2 months ago.

[@judem81]

Thank you for sharing! So excited to try this!😁

[@jokoheruutomo9252]

waah.. sungguh enak, di jawa daun ubi dimasak disebut brambang asem, javanese recipe to cook brambang asem: potato leaves (daun ubi jalar) onions (bawang merah/brambang) chili pepers (cabe rawit) curly peppers (cabe kriting) tamarind (asem jawa) palm sugar (gula jawa), salt (garam), shrimp paste (terasi)... so tender and succulent

[@GrAsSMoPer]

Cool that’s how we stir fry our leaves too 👍👍👍

[@GalaxyJ-vm2rn]

I am growing sweet potato this summer, very exiting! On balconies..☺

[@lieblee3063]

Thank you for enjoying sweet potatoe leaves. I love to eat it as well!!! 😘🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@GlobalLeadFormula]

Very cool. I have never heard of eating sweet potato leaves. I love sweet potatoes, but have never grown them. Do you just get a sweet potato and cut it up and plant it in the garden?

[@jibrilsaneko3969]

try cooking with the purplish variety. It tastes better..

[@rilynzzz]

It's good in any sea food soup, especially pampano soup. I jus toss it right on top of the soup right when it's done cooking.

[@mainfriendly]

Very Good Information about Sweet Potato Soft and Fresh Leaves Stir Frying Very Easy rcp and Clear and Nice Speaking and Smiling and Sharing Videos. Wonderful. Thanks A Lot.

[@sabinusgregory1552]

Wow 😲😲 what amazing I never new that you could eat sweet potatoes leaves, wow 😲 it looks yummy 😋🤤 I am vegan and I think 🤔 that am going to try it. My dear thank you for sharing this information to eat sweet potatoes leaves. Tell me how to grow sweet potatoes.? Well I am watching from Trinidad 🇹🇹, I really love this thank you for sharing Ms Wendi Phan, you are amazing, and thank God for the wonderful things he has created for us to eat and be healthy Amen 🙏 blessings ☺️ and God bless you richly 🙏😘🌹🌺🤗

[@IAMgagnez]

Great video. Thank you. Will be doing this, this fall.

[@nancyfahey7518]

The leaves melt in your mouth. I love it. My australian grass keets love it too. I'd like to add that doing keto for 2 years I cannot eat spinach or carrots any more. They are too sweet and gross.

[@kramtumibay199]

i love you wendy.. take care always!

[@verk9828]

Hi. In the Philippines, we cooked the young leaves for soups, sautéed or even salad. enjoy!

[@roxananunez2735]

I discovered your blog today and loving it 🙏🙏🌸🌸🌸

[@NatureZone101]

Super good you mention oxalates, most people wouldn't realize how important that can be. Would you say in general you got 5-6 potatoes out of 1 slip? Wondering if they can be done in containers?

[@JodBronson]

Big containers yes.... We have done it. But if you can, put container on grass.

[@nunyabusiness863]

Thanks for this. Timeless info.

[@PreachingTruth]

I really like to just add the leaves to salad. Pretty tasty roasted crunchy cooked like kale chips.

[@beachlife8367]

Thank u for this video. I had heard you could eat these leaves but it was only after I had already fed them to the chickens last year. This year, I want to cook and try them out. Question: have you ever frozen these and, if so, did you cook them first and then freeze them?

[@soraidahodge9296]

Hi. Never heard of it. But today I'm gonna try it. Looks good. We grow it here in Curaçao but we only eat the patato. So am going to try it. Thanhs

[@oldtyres36]

Awesome video. I'm gunna do this with my vine out the back

[@BobMelsimpleliving.]

Thanks for sharing Wendi. We eat our sweet potato leaves too. Best wishes Bob.

[@TinaB157]

Hello, what does it taste like.

[@cobbytowngirl]

Thank you for this video, it was very informative and I'm going to look for these greens when I'm visiting Florida [I'm from Canada]. Also I'm wondering, can these greens be used in a tossed salad, or do they need to be cooked? Thanks!

[@UniversalDust]

She did say they have higher amounts of oxalates than other vegetables/ leaves so cooking will reduce that amount. If you only sprinkle some fresh leaves on top of a salad as a garnish I suppose but it's probably best to cook them. Oxalates are somewhat controversial but they say that too much causes stones.

[@YuBerrie]

When ever I get these greens from the Asian store, I blanch them and put them in the fridge to be eaten with my meals. I love them

[@wendiland]

That works too and even healthier! Or can always pour olive oil on top before serving.

[@Iloveorganicgardening]

That looks very delicious!

[@BrittanyDaine]

I enjoy miso so I definitely want to try this. Now, I'm not sure if I got this correctly, but did you say only to take the younger leaves and leave the older ones? Also, I'm wondering how many leaves I can harvest without negatively affecting the root production?

[@inthevanwithalexa]

Thank you for sharing this great recipe for vegan eating ❤

[@emanueladavis1885]

Love your video's thanks for sharing, I had no idea you could eat sweet potato leaves, to think I used to throw them in the compost......cheers

[@marlliejoyce]

I'm a fan of you now! What part of Socal are you from? Ahhh, you kind of inspired me to fix our backyard and turn into a veggie/fruit garden! 😊😊😊

[@GerardGibney3]

No better move ever. Get all of your favorite fruits that are zone appropriate and plant them ASAP and then move on to your fav vegetables. Might I recommend Annona trees and blackberry bushes? Grow All crucifers. hot peppers are perennial trees (shield from cold, I do this in pots because I live in zone 7) and are fantastic to grow year round because they just keep fruiting fresh chilis. off of a few 2$ seed packs from baker creek I have like every good type of hot pepper fresh on the plant year round for the kitchen, and for LOOKS-they are beautiful. Tomatoes are great for greenhouses and if your weather is warm enough, they will grow FOR YEARS! yes, the tomato is a perennial tree. Ever see how hard the stem gets at the end of the season???

[@artmuyar6175]

I just blanch it. Then add diced tomatoes and onions. Squeezed it with calamansi. Then salt and pepper to taste. 😊

[@itsjoywithin]

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this video Wendi

[@michelineh4752]

Thanks for all the info. I'm excited to plant my sprouting sweet potato in a large pot. Are the flowers edible too?

[@seshadrisrinath]

You have cactus and banana trees ? Southern US I presume, Zone 8 or 9 ? How does your cactus turn out ? I have found it wild in SC (Zone 8) but its dry and stringy. Store bought ones are softer and juicier. In the wild it also was grown in non watered and dry locations. Would it turn up juicy and not stringy if I grew it in a wet location. How does your nopales turn out ? And what soils and water do you grow it in.

[@claudiapena8975]

uuuuuum!!! some is good! thanks for sharing👍

[@BenjasUberHobby]

That looks great :) Thanks for sharing! liked!

[@SreejaNairTonk]

Thank you! Awesome and simple with alternatives explained.

[@fifeohfarmingnstuff4416]

Waiting for my sweet tater slips to get a little bigger, then to plant n have some leaves. You can learn so much about food on the Tube..

[@hackit9578]

Hi , thank you for sharing your recipe. I was wondering is this shoots are from regular sweet potatoes(red outside and white inside) or only the purple sweet potatoe shoots can be eaten? I've been growing regular store ones.