Best Spicy African Rice Peanut Soup Recipes

WEST AFRICAN PEANUT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large, heavy pot. Add onions and ginger, and cook for 5-10 minutes until the onions are very soft and translucent, but not browned.
• Add tomato paste and mix with the onions until they are well coated. Add the sweet potatoes to the pot, season with salt and cayenne pepper, and mix with the onion and tomato paste mixture.
• Pour the vegetable broth or water into the pot and bring mixture to a boil. Lower the heat to a simmer and cover for 20 minutes, until the sweet potatoes are cooked. Stir in the peanut butter until it's well blended with the mixture. Add spinach and/or chicken, if desired, and stir to combine.
• Serve over white rice with crushed peanuts, if desired.

AFRICAN PEANUT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large stock pot over medium high heat. Cook onions and bell peppers until lightly browned and tender, stirring in garlic when almost done to prevent burning. Stir in tomatoes, vegetable stock, pepper, and chili powder. Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
• Stir in rice, cover, and simmer another fifteen minutes or until rice is tender. Stir in peanut butter until well blended, and serve.

SPICY PEANUT SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat vegetable oil to medium-high heat and saute the onions, sweet potato, and garlic, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add the chicken broth, thyme, cumin, and rice.
• Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, until rice is cooked and vegetables are tender, 18-20 minutes.
• Add the salsa, beans and zucchini; cook until zucchini is tender about 10 minutes.
• Add peanut butter and stir until completely combined.

WEST AFRICAN PEANUT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large stock pot over medium-high heat. Cook onion, bell pepper, and garlic until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Stir in tomatoes with their juice, vegetable broth, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
• Add rice to soup and stir. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 25 minutes, or until rice is tender.
• When rice is cooked, whisk in peanut butter and return to a simmer, and serve. Garnish with chopped roasted peanuts, if desired.

SPICY AFRICAN PEANUT SOUP WITH CHICKPEAS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan; saute onion until translucent. Add sweet potato and garlic;cook, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes.
• Add broth, rice, thyme and cumin; stir. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer until rice is tender (18 to 20 minutes).
• Add salsa, garbanzos and zucchini; cook until zucchini is tender, about 10 minutes. Add peanut butter; stir.
• Heat thoroughly, ladle into bowls and top with peanuts.
• Serve immediately.

SPICY AFRICAN PEANUT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over high heat.
• Add pepper, ginger, carrots, garlic, onions and cayenne or chilies.
• Cook for 2 minutes, then add potato and stock.
• Bring to the boil and simmer 10 minutes.
• Transfer the vegetables to a food processor and purée until smooth.
• Return the purée to the saucepan and stir in peanut butter and tomato juice or mash the vegetables in the saucepan until slightly lumpy.
• Add sugar, salt and pepper.
• Serve sprinkled with green onions.

SPICY AFRICAN RICE & PEANUT SOUP

Steps:

• In large saucepan, heat the vegetable oil in medium-high heat to saute the onions, sweet potato, and garlic until onion is softened (about 5 minutes). Add chicken broth, thyme, cumin, and rice. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer, cover until rice is cooked and vegetables are tender. Add salsa, beans, and zucchini and cook until zucchini is tender. Add peanut butter, stir until completely combined.