DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Sweet Potato Leaf Stew
Sierra Leone sweet potato leaves in palm oil with dried fish, beans and sesame ogirie seasoning.
About Sweet Potato Leaf Stew
Sweet potato leaf sauce is documented among Sierra Leone’s traditional recipes by the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. This rendition combines finely sliced leaves with palm oil, dried fish, beans and ogirie seasoning.
The leaves provide the sauce’s green character, while dried fish contributes savouriness. Onion and pepper complement the palm oil, and sesame-based ogirie adds a pungent fermented flavour.
Soft leaves and beans give the sauce a substantial texture around the fish. It appears as a side dish or alongside rice, with the leafy sauce forming the centre of the serving.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Sesame, Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Sweet Potato Leaf Stew
Slow Food’s documented Sierra Leone sweet potato leaf sauce with dried fish and beans.
- Sweet potato leavesBase
- Palm oilCooking medium
- Sesame seeds for ogirieSeasoning
- Banana leaves for ogirie wrappingCooking medium
- Dried fish, species unspecifiedProtein
- Beans, type unspecifiedBase
- OnionAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- Pepper, unspecifiedSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- Rice for offered accompanimentAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Sweet potato leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual10 explicitly young sweet potato leaves, no spinach or cassava substitution.
- Palm oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sesame seeds for ogirie: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Actual10 ogirie expanded through same-book13 explicit benniseeds Sesamum indicum boiled/fermented/smoked seasoning. Sesame positive; no locust-bean substitution.
- Banana leaves for ogirie wrapping: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 literal wrap before smoking; food-contact component, not claimed consumed. Jute sack is an implement, not an extra food.
- Dried fish, species unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual10 dried fish confirms Fish, exact species/form unknown.
- Beans, type unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual10 unqualified beans, no forced white/butter/peanut/Soy identity.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper, unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual10 generic pepper, exact colour/species/form unestablished.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual10 explicitly cover sauce ingredients with water; shared rice medium4.
- Rice for offered accompaniment (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual10 first rice over sorghum/millet; same-book4 simple salted-water rice cooking identified. Side-only rice optional, shared main Salt/Water stay required.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Sierra Leone
- Sierra LeoneCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Sierra Leonean Cuisine
- Sierra Leonean CuisineCatalogue link pending review