African Peanut Soup
Tomato paste with chilli and peanut butter is a West African sauce for sweet potatoes, rice, meat or veggies in countries like Benin. You could also puree the sweet potatoes instead of leaving them in blocks.
Ingredients
4-5 servings
800 g
400 g
1
Sweet potatoes
Spinach leaves
Cucumber
Bread or rice (optional)
15-20 g
140 g
3 TBL sp
1 tea sp
1 tea sp
500 ml
1
2 cloves
Ginger
Tomato paste
Peanut butter
Chilli
Cinnamon
Stock (beef)
Onion
Garlic
Prep
10 min
- Dice onion and mince garlic
- Grate ginger
- Peel and cut sweet potatoes into blocks
- Slice cucumber
Cook
25 min
Sauté onions and sweet potato
medium heat ~4 min, season with salt and pepper
Boil water and mix stock
Add ginger and garlic
~4 min
Add cinnamon and chilli
~1 min
Add tomato paste
~1 min
Add peanut butter, then add stock
simmer with lid on ~10 min, taste and add salt and pepper if needed
Add spinach
simmer ~5 min
Make it a dinner party
Garnish with fresh coriander