A great recipe that goes well with white rice, eba, semo, or eko is groundnut soup with chicken. This tasty soup takes between 30 and 40 minutes to prepare. The wonderful thing about this recipe is that you can prepare a portion for six people with about N2000.
Ingredients: chicken peanut soup
- 2 cup of raw peanuts - N300
- 5 table spoom of red oil (palm oil) - N120
- Half kilogram of chicken thigh - N1200
- 1 teaspoon of Uziza seeds (Piper guineense seeds) - N50
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper - N50
- 1 teaspoon of red pepper, N50
- 3 seasoning cubes - N30
- A hand full of sliced Scent leaves (Ocimum gratissimum)
- 2 table spoons of crayfish - N50
- 3 cups of rice
How to Groundnut Soup with Chicken
- Roast peanuts in a pan.
- Following roasting, let the groundnuts cool.
- Blend the roasted groundnuts, Piper guineense seed (Uziza seed), and crayfish in a blender until smooth.
- Clean the chicken with lukewarm water to get rid of any dirt, then place it in a cooking saucepan, add 2 seasoning cubes and salt. On low heat, add the onion and simmer it for 15 minutes before removing it.
- Set the cooked chicken aside.
- Heat up an empty clean cooking pot. Pour the red oil into the pot, add the groundnuts, and stir until well combined. It should be well blended with the groundnuts. Red oil is added to give the soup some color instead of keeping it white.
- Add 1 cup of water, stir it thoroughly and bring to boil.
- Add black and red pepper.
- Add cooked the chicken with its juice (the water or oil that came out of it when you first boiled it). Taste the soup for seasoning and salt. If the taste is off-putting to you, you can add a little extra salt and seasoning cube. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Add sliced scent leaves and stir. Cook for an additional 5 minutes, or until the fragrant leaves are tender.
Serve with boiled rice or Eba.
Also read: How To Cook Delicious Edikang Ikong. Edikang Ikong Recipe
Chicken Groundnut Soup Ingredients photos;
Crayfish, seasoning cubes, black pepper, white pepper, Uziza seeds, and salt
Chicken seasoned with salt, cube and onions
Scent leaves
Health benefits of peanuts chicken soup
Vitamin E, magnesium, folic acid, copper, and arginine are just a few of the nutrients that peanuts are rich in. Cooking it with other nutritious ingredients is a healthy meal for your family. Furthermore, due to their high protein content, groundnuts are excellent for anyone looking to either reduce weight or build muscle.
