1
Season chicken
Season chicken with salt, pepper, onion, garlic, and ginger. Simmer with stock or water until partly tender.
Cook chicken
25:00
Ghana | Soup
Groundnut Soup
Ghanaian groundnut soup with chicken, peanut paste, tomato, ginger, chile, and a silky broth for fufu or rice balls.
Country
Ghana
Region
West Africa
Time
65 min
Serves
6
Level
medium
Recipe overview
What to know before you cook
Groundnut soup should pour like soup, not sit like stew. Cook the tomato base down, loosen the peanut paste with stock, then simmer until the oil shines gently on top.
What the dish tastes like
Ghanaian groundnut soup with chicken, peanut paste, tomato, ginger, chile, and a silky broth for fufu or rice balls.
When to cook it
Best for Everyday meals, with a medium cooking level and about 65 minutes total.
What to serve alongside it
Fufu, omo tuo, rice balls, boiled yam, or kokonte
Regional lane
Soups, stews, and swallow table. Groundnut, greens, fish, palm oil, and fufu-friendly bowls.
Chef watch-outs
- Adding too much liquid after the rice goes in.
- Stirring too often once the grains should be steaming.
- Stopping the base before the pepper, onion, or spice edge has mellowed.
How you know it is ready
- The grains should be tender but still distinct, with steam carrying the seasoning upward.
- The sauce should coat the spoon and taste rounded, not watery or raw.
- The aroma should smell rounded rather than raw or sharp.
Pantry lane
shito, palm oil, sorghum leaves, fermented corn dough, groundnut
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Chef board
Build the table around Groundnut Soup
Fufu, omo tuo, rice balls, boiled yam, or kokonte
Best route from here
Soups, stews, and swallow table
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How to cook it
Step-by-step method
Keep the rhythm calm, watch the texture, and adjust seasoning at the end.
5 steps
65 min total
medium
2
Cook tomato base
Blend tomatoes and chile. Cook with tomato paste until reduced and no longer raw.
Reduce tomato
15:00
3
Loosen groundnut
Whisk peanut paste with hot stock until smooth, then add it to the soup.
4
Simmer soup
Return chicken and remaining stock to the pot. Simmer gently until the chicken is tender and the soup is silky.
Simmer soup
30:00
5
Serve
Taste for salt and serve hot with fufu, omo tuo, or yam.
Chicken, goat, fish, smoked fish, garden eggs, or okra may move through the pot depending on the household.