African Peanut Stew

By jpmigny2020@gmail.com

November 5, 2022

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A scrumptious, effervescent pot of African Peanut Stew with eggplant, candy potatoes and crunchy peanuts is the final word fall consolation meals. The spicy-sweet vegan stew is loaded with taste from easy spices and garlicky harissa paste. It is a dish nobody shall be in a position to withstand!

African peanut stew in Dutch oven with soup ladle and cilantro garnish.

This vegan African Peanut Stew is so, so, so excellent!

Stews are excellent fall meals, and that is the time I like to prepare dinner up scorching, satisfying stews in my kitchen, together with classics like this vegan gumbo, vegan mushroom stew, vegan Irish stew and this African Peanut Stew.

The stew is loaded with wholesome veggies like eggplants and candy potatoes, and loaded with taste from easy spices, together with fenugreek, coriander, cumin and a garlicky, fiery harissa paste. It’s each yummy and nourishing, particularly when served over a mattress of brown or white rice.

If you happen to nonetheless aren’t satisfied it is best to make this African peanut stew recipe, this is what this dish actually boils all the way down to: a scrumptious, effervescent pot of peanut butter with tasty spices and veggies. Now how might you say no to that?

Desk of Contents

Why you may love this recipe

It is stuffed with taste. There are such a lot of layers of taste on this stew, from a easy dry spice mixture of fenugreek, coriander and cumin, from the peanut butter, from the veggies, and from the harissa paste. The stew comes collectively fairly rapidly however the flavors make this seem a larger labor of affection than it truly is.
It is simple to place collectively. Though it sounds unique, the substances on this stew are straightforward to search out wherever on the earth, and it’s simply as straightforward to make it.
It is soy-free and gluten-free. There are peanuts on this recipe as a result of the peanuts kind the primary taste base. In case you are allergic to peanuts see the “variations” part beneath.

Elements

Vegetable oil. Any oil, together with avocado oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil or grapeseed oil. Olive oil isn’t most well-liked for sauteing but when that is what you have got you should utilize it.
Aromatics: Ginger and onions
Spices: Chili peppers like scotch bonnet, serrano or jalapeno, fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and harissa paste.
Greens: Tomatoes, tomato paste, eggplants and candy potatoes,
Nuts: Creamy peanut butter, complete or halved uncooked peanuts. Try the “variations” part beneath for nut free alternate options.
Vegetable inventory or water
Salt to style

Variations

You need to use potatoes, winter squash like pumpkin or butternut squash and cauliflower or different veggies of your selection within the stew. I’ve usually used okra on this recipe and it is scrumptious. The sliminess of the okra helps thicken the stew with out making the dish slimy.
In case you are delicate to warmth do not use scotch bonnet peppers and go for a milder chili pepper. Additionally make sure you deseed. Bear in mind you’ll be including within the harissa paste, and that has loads of warmth. If you happen to needed to decide both the harissa or the recent chili peppers, decide the harissa.
When you have a peanut allergy however can devour different nuts, you should utilize almond butter or cashew butter as a substitute. Or do that stew with pumpkin seed butter or sunflower seed butter.

Methods to make African Peanut Stew

1. Place the fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds and cumin seeds in a blender bowl or spice grinder.

2. Mix the spices right into a powder.

3. In a big pot, warmth the oil. Add the onions and saute over medium warmth for about 7-8 minutes till they’re delicate.

Onions, ginger and chile peppers sauteing in pot.

4. Add the ginger and minced peppers, stir to combine.

5. Add the powdered spices and blend.

Tomato paste and tomato puree added to pot.

6. Stir within the tomato puree and tomato paste. Combine and prepare dinner 2-3 minutes.

Peanut butter and paprika added to tomatoes.

7. Add paprika and peanut butter and blend them in.

8. Add all of the greens and peanuts together with 3 cups of vegetable broth or water. Combine and convey the stew to a boil. Cowl, decrease warmth to a simmer, and prepare dinner 20-25 minutes or till the greens are tender.

9. Lastly stir within the harissa. I add a few tablespoons first, style, then add extra if I wish to.

Cooked African peanut stew in Dutch oven.

10. Garnish with cilantro, if utilizing, and serve scorching.

African peanut stew with soup ladle in pot.

Recipe FAQs

What can I serve with African peanut stew?

This stew is great served over rice. Use a plain boiled brown rice or white rice, like basmati rice. Garnish with cilantro and, should you like, with extra roasted peanuts.
You may as well serve it with a piece of crusty French bread.
You may as well skinny out the stew to serve it as an African peanut soup!

Is the peanut stew very spicy?

Really, no. You would possibly suppose that the harissa and the chili peppers would make the stew very popular. However the flavors are balanced completely with the sweetness of the peanut butter and candy potatoes and what you style is a yummy, flavor-packed stew. Bear in mind you may as well management the warmth by including as a lot or as little harissa as you want. If you happen to like a variety of spice, you possibly can add a spicier pepper, like habanero pepper or scotch bonnet pepper, to the stew.

What’s the origin of this African peanut stew?

Numerous variations of peanut stew or groundnut stew are cooked throughout West African nations like Senegal, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana and Gambia, the place they go by beautiful names like maafe, nkatenkwan, domoda, akitiwa and miyan taushe. However I name my model an “African peanut stew” and never a “West African Peanut Stew” as a result of I tie all of the flavors within the peanut stew along with the spicy North African sauce, harissa.

What can I substitute for the harissa?

If you do not have harissa, add 4 cloves of crushed garlic to the pot together with the recent ginger. Use crimson pepper flakes or any scorching sauce of your selection for warmth.

Storage directions

Refrigerate: This stew could be saved within the fridge for as much as three days.
Freeze: Freeze the stew for as much as three months in a freezer-safe container.
Reheat: Thaw and reheat over the range till warmed by way of.

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