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Potato Greens

Name: Potato Greens
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Liberia
Ingredients: 2 bunches Water spinach; 300g Chicken Thigh; 15g Dried shrimp; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; 1 tsp Salt; 300ml Water; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sweet potato leaves chopped fine and stewed with meat or fish — a Liberian home greens dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Potato greens is Liberian home cooking: young sweet potato leaves are chopped fine and stewed in palm or vegetable oil with chicken, smoked fish, onion, and chili. Alongside cassava leaf it's one of the two great greens dishes, eaten with rice almost every day.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Sweet potato leaves are picked from the field behind a Liberian house, chopped fine in the kitchen, and stewed with meat.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Water spinach 2 bunches
Chicken Thigh 300g
Dried shrimp 15g
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 300ml
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Chop the greens very finely.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the bite-size chicken and onion.
Add the water, stock powder, dried shrimp, and chili and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the greens and simmer 15 minutes, stirring.
Season with salt and serve with rice.

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