Recipe African Peanut Soup with optional Chicken

[Frizz1974]

1/4 cup neutral oil
2 onions
1 red capsicum
4 cloves garlic
Thumb sized piece ginger
Chilli - use what you like
1 Tbls cumin seeds
1/4 cup Tomato paste
2 sticks celery
2 carrots
1 large orange sweet potato (kumara)
1 x 800gm tin diced tomato
1 bunch fresh coriander with roots (optional)
1/4 cup natural peanut butter
4 cups stock (chicken or veg)
2 cans chickpeas
1 bunch kale.

*Chicken - bone in or fillets.

Peel, deseed, chop veg except kale .
Heat oil, sauté onion then add capsicum, chilli, garlic, ginger, stir 1 minute
Add cumin seeds, stir 1 minute
Add tomato paste, stir 3 minutes
Add stock, tomato, 1 can of chickpeas, celery, carrot, coriander, peanut butter and sweet potato.
Bring to the boil & turn down to a simmer *
Simmer for 1 hour then blend.

Add shredded kale & the second can of chickpeas. Simmer 5 minutes, taste & adjust for seasoning, then serve with peanuts and chilli flakes to garnish

*add chicken - I used 8 big drumsticks then removed them before blending - adding the shredded meat in with the kale & chickpeas. You could use breast fillet and remove after 25 minutes then shred.

This fed 10 for dinner and I froze 3 portions for work lunches.

 

[garlichead]

Very nice recipe. Cheers.

This is not a criticism and just personally speaking but I'd probably use a stick blender and puree about half of all ingredients except chicken leaving some of the overall ingredients for texture as opposed to adding an additional can of chic peas and kale for that purpose.

 

[Frizz1974]

Hi garlichead

Stick blenders for the win. I love mine.

The original recipe I based this on wasn’t blended but my son wouldn’t have eaten this if there were chunks of sweet potato & one of my guests wouldn’t have eaten it with the whole chickpeas. I added very few to the version I served them dumped in extra before freezing.