African Peanut Soup

This soup is different. Some will like it, some won't. My friend Dianna gave me the recipe and as she has adapted it to her family's likes, so we have, too. Your Liberian children will love this (if you have Liberian children :)) Everyone in our house likes it. However, for me, it is one of those soups that once I eat it, I don't want it again for a good month, unlike my lemon chicken rice soup which I could eat every week! Again, this is versatile and I don't measure (sorry), and I am SURE it is not authentic.

African Peanut Soup (my version)

1 whole chicken
water
peanut butter
1 can of corn
2 cans diced tomatoes
green pepper
rice
onion

So, here's what I do: I throw a whole chicken into the crockpot and cover it with water and and throw some chopped onion in. I cooked that for 5 hours on High. By the way, my crockpot is 6 qts.-so about 10 c. of water. This feeds us for one dinner and one lunch and there are 8 of us eating, so it makes a lot. I then pull the chicken out (it all is falling apart) and I let it cool and debone it--gross, but necessary. I add some peanut butter to the broth--I think I added about 4 c. I just added and tasted, added and tasted. I dumped in 2 cans of diced tomatoes and 1 can of corn. I sauteed some green pepper and added that ( I could have added it when I was cooking the chicken, but I forgot). I added the chicken back in and seasoned with some sea salt. I served this over a generous helping of rice in each bowl. I am contemplating adding sweet potato next time. Good flavor. Very hearty. And, I didn't have to heat my house in this HOT weather. Gotta love that crockpot. I am using it today to make lasagna roll-ups (courtesy of my mother-in-law).

Enjoy!

In Christ, Laura