GROUNDNUT SOUP(How to make Smooth Peanut Soup)

Groundnut soup is a soup thickened with roasted blend groundnuts. It is very popular in Africa, cooked ways with a variety of ingredients depending on the tribe within Africa and taste very delicious.

If you do not like groundnuts or have an allergy to peanuts this recipe is not for you. However if you like groundnuts, you are in for a treat! Yes, that’s right, groundnut soup is very “ground nutty”. The groundnuts undergo a process of gradual roasting, fine grinding then simmering with few exotic spices in a rich beef or chicken stock. The result? A creamy soup that is full of flavour which you can serve with rice or plantains.

The selling point of this soup is that it comes together in no time. You only need a few simple ingredients: raw groundnuts, 4 fresh tomatoes or a can of tomatoe, 2 large onions, 1/4 ginger, 4 garlic cloves, 2 Maggi cubes, crayfish seasoning, vegetable oil and beef.

PLEASE NOTE YOU CAN ALSO USE MUSHROOMS OR FISH FOR THIS RECIPE . Checkout the GROUNDNUT SOUP with fried tilapia fish.

INGREDIENTS USED IN THIS RECIPE

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If you do not want to roast your own groundnuts, then by all means, use smooth peanut butter https://amzn.to/3NkV0Ca off the jar. It is basically the same thing as groundnut paste and using it will greatly reduce your cooking time. However from this recipe, I enjoy roasting and grinding my own groundnuts because , to me the soup tastes more authentic that way.

Known in other parts of the world as peanuts, the nuts that make this soup are known in West Africa as groundnuts. Here is a snack Candied SWEETs / Groundnut sweet/sugar coated sweets we call peanuts coated with sugar .

Different countries in Africa have different ways of preparing this soup. Sometimes, it is cooked with palm oil and simmered with a variety of meats. Groundnut soup is also known for having different names . In Ghana it is known as Nkatenkwan, Maafe in other West African countries such as Guinea Conakry / Senegal and called sauce d’arachide in French which is normally called that way in the French speaking part of Cameroon . I heard my Ugandan friend calling it peanut butter soup. It really has a wide appeal especially among African folks. I love eating my groundnut soup with rice because that combo is THE BOMB. This dish also goes well with boiled plantains or Garri.

THE COOKING PROCESS