Groundnut (Peanut) Soup - Nigerian Style
Groundnut (Peanut) Soup - Nigerian Style

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, groundnut (peanut) soup - nigerian style. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook groundnut (peanut) soup - nigerian style using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Groundnut (Peanut) Soup - Nigerian Style:
  1. Make ready Assorted meat/fish
  2. Take 1 cup raw ground nut (roasted groundnut works as well)
  3. Get 1/2 teaspoon Uziza seed (Piper guneensis)
  4. Take 1 cooking spoon of palmoil
  5. Make ready Scotch bonnet/habanero pepper, blended
  6. Take Ugwu (fluted pumpkin leaf)
  7. Make ready 3 tablespoon Ground crayfish
  8. Make ready cubes Seasoning
  9. Prepare 2 medium sized onions
  10. Prepare to taste Salt
Steps to make Groundnut (Peanut) Soup - Nigerian Style:
  1. Wash and boil the meat/fish with seasoning cubes, salt and onions, boil till tender and keep aside. Ensure you boil the hard meats like kpomo, shaki and fish like stock fish before adding the softer ones.
  2. Pick out the bad ones and toast the raw groundnut in a pan, stirring constantly till they become fragrant and turns light brown. Leave to cool down
  3. Grind the toasted groundnut and uziza into a rough powder with a dry mill, processor or mortar and pestle. (I didn't bother removing the skin)
  4. In a pot,heat up the oil a bit, add the chopped onions and blended pepper and fry till it dries
  5. Mix the groundnut with water to form a paste (you can choose not to though, it depends on how you do your frying method of egusi), then pour into oil and mix properly.
  6. Add the crayfish and stir properly for about 1 min.
  7. Then add the meat/fish with stock,cover and simmer for 5 minutes stirring at intervals to avoid burning
  8. Cook till the soup thickens and add more water if too thick for your liking.
  9. You can adjust the seasonings and serve the soup at this moment if you don't like having leaves in your groundnut but if not, continue to the next step.
  10. Add ugwu leaf, taste and adjust the seasoning, cover the pot and turn off the heat.
  11. Serve with rice or any swallow of choice.

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