Peanut Soup Recipe:How to Make Ghanian Peanut Butter Soup
Peanut soup is native to the Hausa people in Northern Ghana/Nigeria. This is an easy to make soup that I usually serve with rice balls (tuwo shikafa) or any kind of fufu (swallow).
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 55 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 2.2 lb / 1kg meat (chicken & goat)
- 2 large tomatoes
- 2 medium-sized onions
- 6 Scotch bonnet peppers
- 1 Seasoning / bouillon cube
- Half teaspoon rosemary
- 1 finger ginger
- 2 Garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp tomato paste.
- Salt to taste.
Instructions
- 1
Combine garlic, ginger, half cup of water, one onion, tomato paste, rosemary, 3 scotch bonnet peppers and blend to paste.
- 2
Strain into the meat in a pot. Sprinkle the seasoning cube and a pinch of salt.
- 3
Set on heat and let it boil for 7-10 minutes, add more water and let the meat cook till it is easy to chew. Should take 15-20 minutes. Set aside.
- 4
In another pot, combine fresh tomatoes, the remaining onion and set on heat. Add 2 cups of water and let is boil for 5 minutes.
- 5
Let it cool for a few minutes.
- 6
Transfer into a blender, add the peanut butter and blend everything to paste.
- 7
Strain into the pot containing the meat. Stir, add another cup of water, let it simmer on medium heat for 15-20 minutes.
- 8
It should thicken as it cooks.
- 9
Add extra scotch bonnet peppers for extra heat and color, I used a combination of red, green and yellow scotch bonnet peppers.
- 10
Stir, Let it simmer on low heat for 5 minutes, serve with fufu.