Ghana

Groundnut soup

Name: Groundnut soup
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: 800 g chicken pieces chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces); 1 large half sliced, half blended onion; 1 inch ginger; 3 cloves garlic; 1 or to taste scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli); 1 1/2 tsp salt; 3 blended tomato; 1/4 cup tomato paste tomato puree; 3/4 cup unsweetened peanut butter; 6 cups water

Chicken in a rich, spicy peanut and tomato soup. West Africa's Sunday best, creamy without cream.

75 minTime

35 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayChicken, tomato and peanut paste with scotch bonnet.

The original

424kcalsame

35 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

75minutessame

Nkatenkwan, Ghanaian groundnut soup.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)800 g chicken pieces

Onion1 large, half sliced, half blended

Ginger2.5 cm

Garlic3 cloves

Scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli)1, or to taste

Salt1½ tsp

Tomato3, blended

Tomato puree¼ cup tomato paste

Peanut butter¾ cup unsweetened

Water6 cups

Method

4 steps

1Steam the chicken with sliced onion, blended onion, ginger, garlic, scotch bonnet and salt in a covered pot for 10 minutes.
2Add blended tomato, tomato paste and 4 cups water. Simmer 15 minutes.
3Whisk peanut butter with 2 cups hot water to a smooth paste and stir into the pot.
4Simmer 30 minutes, stirring often, until oil rises to the surface.

Serve it like this

Serve in deep bowls with a rice ball or fufu in the centre and chicken around it. Hot, with extra chilli on the side.

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Groundnut soup

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