Vietnamese
Rau Lang Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves)
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Rau Lang Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pick the tender leaves and top shoots off the sweet potato stems, discard the tough lower stems, then wash well and drain.
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Crush and mince the garlic.
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Heat the oil in a wok over high heat, add half the garlic and stir until just golden, about 20 seconds.
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Add the leaves and toss over high heat until wilted and glossy, about 2 minutes, then season with the fish sauce and salt.
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Scatter over the remaining garlic, toss once more and serve right away with rice.
Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Rau Lang Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Rau Lang Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Mong Toi Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Malabar Spinach) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 100 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 7 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Rau Lang Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Sweet Potato Leaves) takes about 12 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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