“Granat Soup” (Peanut Butter Soup)

“Granat Soup” with steamed Rice (Peanut Butter Soup)

Hello NCC readers! Peanut Butter Soup, I like to call this my lazy dish. It is my quick easy guilty pleasure dish. It can be prepared as a sauce/stew or a soup. In today’s post I prepared it as a soup which goes well with steamed rice. The difference is with the stew/sauce the ingredients have to be slightly fried whilst with the soup the cooking method is mainly boiling from start to finish. I used smoked broiler chicken, turkey neck, oxtail and snapper fish to compliment the sweet flavour of the peanut butter however; any meat or fish of your liking can be used. 

As with most of my dishes, this dish is perfect as main course for lunch or dinner. I hope you enjoy reading and hopefully try out the recipe. Aprons on!!!

Ingredients

Ingredients 

1. Jar of smooth Peanut butter (4 table spoon scoops)
2. Half smoked broiler chicken
3. ½ kg turkey neck
4. ½ kg oxtail
5. Two fresh snapper
6. 3 medium size onions
7. 2 Red bell peppers
8. 2 scotch peppers
9. Spring onions
10. Fresh thyme
11. Seasoning (black pepper, all purpose, garlic powder, mixed dry herbs and maggie cube)
12. 1 tinned chopped tomato
13. Tomato puree 

Serving for 4

 

Cooking Instructions

Granat Soup (Peanut Butter Soup)

 

1.      Cut all your meats into sizeable pieces of your choice then, wash thoroughly.

2.      Do the same with the snapper and season with fish seasoning.

3.      Bring the meats to boil with 1 liter water for 20 minutes.

4.      Chop onions, bell peppers and spring onions. Add to the pot of boiling meats 

Vegetables boiling away

5.      Blend one onion with 2 scotch peppers. Also add this to the pot with the chopped tomato.

6.      Scoop 4 table spoonful of peanut butter into 200ml water. Mixed this to loosen the paste to make into a liquid like consistency then add this to the boiling pot of vegetables.

Peanut butter paste mixture

7.      Add seasoning, maggie cube, a pinch of salt for flavour, about 4 stems of fresh thyme and tea spoon full of tomato puree to give the soup colour. Mix the pot and taste to the soup. Add more seasoning if you need to.

8.      Leave soup to boil for a further 20 minutes.

9.      Finally, turn the heat low then add the fish and let the soup cook for a further 10 minutes in slow cooking.

A taste of West Africa

Voila! Dish is done!  

Delicious Dish