Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, groundnut stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Groundnut stew is a popular Sierra Leonean dish consisting of ground peanuts, chopped onions, hot peppers, tomato paste, and either meat or fish. The combination of these ingredients is simmered. The Groundnut Cookbook from Duval Timothy, Folayemi Brown and Jacob Fodio Todd features recipes inspired by and inherited from their East and West African heritage.
Groundnut stew is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Groundnut stew is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have groundnut stew using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Groundnut stew:
- Prepare 8 chicken breasts
- Get 1 tbsp ground corriander
- Make ready 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- Take 1 tbsp chilli powder
- Prepare olive oil
- Prepare 2 onions
- Take 2 chillies
- Take 2 large aubergines
- Get 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Take 600 g ripe tomatos
- Get 1 tin chopped tomatos
- Make ready 750 ml chicken stock
- Make ready 4 tbsp peanut butter (I prefer smooth, but you can use chunky peanut butter)
It originates from the Mandinka and Bambara people of Mali. African groundnut stew or Peanut soup can be made with beef, lamb, chicken, fish or any meat. This soup is made with smoked fish and it is my favorite African soup. In West Africa peanuts are commonly called groundnuts because they are grown underneath the dirt.
Instructions to make Groundnut stew:
- Chop the chicken breasts into large chunks and place in a mixing bowl with the coriander, paprika, chilli powder, a pinch of salt and pepper. Then drizzle with olive oil and mix the chicken and seasoning well. Cover the chicken bowl with cling film and leave in the fridge to marinade for a minimum of two hours.
- Preheat your oven to 200C and arrange the chicken pieces so they are not overlapping in a baking tray and cook for 30 mins.
- While the chicken is cooking roughly chop the onions, deseed and finely chop the chillies and chop the aubergines into medium sized chunks. place into a large wok or casserole dish and cook over medium heat with about 4 tbsp of Olive oil. Cook the vegetables for about 30 minutes or until the aubergine is soft.
- Once the chicken is cooked remove from the oven and add to the vegetables in the wok. Then add the tomato puree, tomatoes roughly chopped (ripe and tinned), stock and any juices left in the chicken tray. Give everything a good stir and leave to simmer with the lid off for 30 mins. Remember to stir regularly.
- After 30 mins the sauce should have thickened slightly. Now add the peanut butter and stir into the chicken and vegetables. Then leave to simmer for another 30 minutes until the sauce has thickened until it coats the back of a spoon.
- We ate this with warm pitta breads, but rice or other flat breads would also work perfectly with this dish. Serve and enjoy.
Peanuts are found in many West African countries such as Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Senegal. Fruits and Veggies Matter Child Recipe Cards by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Learn how to make Groundnut Stew. Add this mixture to the stew along with the chicken breasts and wings, the okra and. Peanut butter and tomatoes lend a rich and creamy backdrop to this simple, hearty Ghanaian chicken stew.
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