Purée of Cassava Leaves

The manager of a small family hotel in Padangsidempuan told me, when I interviewed him for my radio programme to be broadcast from the Indonesian Section of the BBC in London, that I must record this recipe. This cassava leaf purée is delicious as a vegetable to be eaten with rice, or as a stuffing for fish. In fact, even if I didn’t have this mission to save endangered regional recipes, I would want to publish this one. I loved it, and I remembered where I had eaten it before – in my grand