Groundnut Soup Recipe – Lamb Stew with Peanuts

This groundnut soup recipe is an African-inspired dish made with peanuts. I make this peanut soup like a stew, with nice chunky ingredients, including meat and potato. This particular recipe is a variation on lamb stew, but you can use chunks of lamb, beef, chicken, or pork, whatever meat you prefer. Adding peanut butter to soup is a very yummy idea, and you should definitely give it a try.

What You Need To Make Peanut Soup

1 lb. LAMB (or preferred meat, cut into stew pieces)
1 lb. FISH (cut into stew pieces)
2 ONIONS (chopped)
HOT PEPPER (finely chopped, or substitute chili powder)
1 SWEET POTATO (chopped, substitute white potato)
½ cup PEANUT BUTTER
3-5 cloves GARLIC (finely chopped)
2 tsp TURMERIC
2 tsp PAPRIKA
2 tsp CUMIN
15oz can CRUSHED TOMATO
½ cup PARSLEY (chopped)
SALT and PEPPER (to taste)

How To Make A Peanut Soup Recipe

You can use chicken, beef, lamb, fish, pork or any combination of these ingredients. Soup is the perfect opportunity to use whatever ingredients you have on hand, or whatever is on sale.
For this particular peanut soup recipe, I’m using a combination of lamb and fish.

• Firstly, season the meat and set aside while you chop and slice the other ingredients.
• Then heat a soup pot on medium high heat, and add in your lamb. Sear the meat on all sides and then remove lamb from the pot. Check current prices for a Soup Pot on Amazon.
• Add a little oil to the pot and reduce heat to medium.
• Add in the garlic, onion, and hot pepper and saute for 3-5 minutes. Add additional seasoning as desired.
• Return seared lamb to the pot and add in the crushed tomato and 1 can of water.
• Chop one sweet potato (or sub white potato) and add to pot.
• Raise the temperature and bring the pot to a boil.
• In a bowl, mix 1 cup of hot water and peanut butter until smooth.
• Add mix to the soup pot.
• Bring pot to a simmer, cover, and cook 30 minutes.
• Add chopped fish.
• Cover and simmer 15-20 minutes.
• Add more water if desired.
• Adjust seasoning as needed.
• Turn off heat and add chopped parsley.

And that’s it…serve as is, or over rice.
Give this super tasty African-inspired stew recipe a try, and let me know what you think, and bon appétit!

For a more traditional Western-style stew, try this Classic Beef Stew Recipe.

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