Ghana

Light soup

Name: Light soup
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: 1 kg chicken or goat in pieces chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces); 5 tomato; 2 onion; a thumb ginger; 3 cloves garlic; 2 scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli); 300 g garden eggs (small white aubergines) brinjal (eggplant, aubergine); 1 cube stock cube (bouillon cube); 6 cups water; Salt, to taste

Thin, peppery tomato soup with chicken and garden eggs. Ghana's Sunday fufu partner.

60 minTime

34 gProtein each

hotSpice

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Grandma's wayChicken, tomato, garden egg and pepper, no oil.

The original

301kcalsame

34 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

60minutessame

Classic Ghanaian light soup.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)1 kg chicken or goat, in pieces

Tomato5

Onion2

Gingera thumb

Garlic3 cloves

Scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli)2

Brinjal (eggplant, aubergine)300 g garden eggs (small white aubergines)

Stock cube (bouillon cube)1 cube

Water6 cups

Saltto taste

Method

4 steps

1Steam the chicken with sliced onion, ginger, garlic, stock cube and salt in a covered pot for 10 minutes.
2Add water, whole tomatoes, peppers and garden eggs and simmer until soft.
3Lift out the vegetables, blend smooth and sieve back into the pot.
4Simmer until the chicken is cooked through and no pink remains.

Serve it like this

Ladle into a wide bowl around a mound of fufu or omo tuo, chicken on top. Eat with the right hand.

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