Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, groundnut stew. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Groundnut stew is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Groundnut stew is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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
- Make ready 1 tbsp chilli powder
- Take olive oil
- Prepare 2 onions
- Get 2 chillies
- Prepare 2 large aubergines
- Take 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Get 600 g ripe tomatos
- Make ready 1 tin chopped tomatos
- Get 750 ml chicken stock
- Take 4 tbsp peanut butter (I prefer smooth, but you can use chunky peanut butter)
It originates from the Mandinka and Bambara people of Mali. Groundnut soup (also called peanut stew) is a common but delicious Nigerian delicacy which is commonly eaten with rice, a starch like eba or pounded yam. 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.
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.
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. I too was introduced to Ground Nut Stew by a friend who spent half his life as a missionary kid in West Africa. He taught me to serve this over rice but with the addition of adding any kind of sqauash or yam. In West Africa peanuts are commonly called groundnuts because they are grown underneath the dirt.
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