Some nights you really do not know what to make. Usually, creativity takes over. I had some sweet potatoes in the fridge and a garden full of nice herbs that begged to be harvested. So I did the most logical thing and cut everything up and threw them together to make a savoury sweet potato dish with fresh garden herbs.

Cooking with your own homegrown ingredients is an incredible feeling. Your grocery shop becomes the garden, and it is always so productive when you look after it. Plus, it is much healthier in my opinion. The ground that it is grown in and the lack of pesticide and herbicide makes it a lot healthier. Moreover, the garden yields a variety that the shops cannot match.

So without further ado, please follow along with me to make this incredibly simple dish!

Ingredients

For dish, you will need a couple of exotic ingredients, but most can be substituted:

• A couple of sweet potatoes,
• A bunch of swiss chard leaves,
• A bunch of garlic chives,
• A bunch of dandelion leaves,
• A bunch of amaranth leaves,
• An onion, and
• Some garlic.

Method

Firstly, you will need to cook the sweet potato. Start by cutting it up into small cubes.

Cook them in a little oil until golden brown. Cooking it in this manner, makes them much tastier and better. It makes them more savoury than sweet.

Whilst this is going on, you can chop the leaves into smaller pieces.

When you have chopped the onions and garlic and swiss chard stems, you can fry and cook them as well.

After they have browned as well, you can add the leaves to them and cook the leaves a little.

After they have barely cooked, add the sweet potato. The dish is then basically done!

To garnish, I add some balsamic reduction and sesame seeds. This gives the dish extra savoury flavour.

You can also add more ingredients, like some bacon or nuts or feta cheese. But as it was, the dish was amazing and really tasty. Even my mom who rarely likes these types of dishes asked for more!

This is such a simple dish to make, I really hope you will do so! Not only is it healthy, it is so tasty and good. It is amazing how much of a difference homegrown ingredients can make.

All of the images are my own, taken with my iPhone. The recipe is also my own. I really hope you will try to make this dish! Please let me know in the comments if you have attempted to make something similar! Happy cooking, stay well.