Groundnut Soup on a Rainy Sunday.

After a day of staying inside due to the heavy rains, we feasted with a delicious Ghanian Groundnut soup prepared by Nuzrat Ngyamah-Poku, who is a Ghanian architecture student that I get to work with designing the health care program and facility. (Nuzrat, I am sorry your photo ended up sideways, but it took 75 minutes to load, so that is the situation.)

Nuzrat's famous Ghanian groundnut soup recipe (serves 12)
1 bottle groundnuts (aka raw/lightly roasted peanuts)
Fresh ginger, about 3 inches
Salt, be generous
Maggi (Knorr Chicken Bouillon is same thing)
Meat: we used 1lb of beef, cut in cubes. Shrimp, chicken, or tofu would also be delicious.
8 tomatoes the size of roma tomatoes, whole with skin
2 purple onions, quartered
1-5 fresh chili peppers, roughly chopped and seeded depending on spice preference
1/4 medium head of cabbage, shredded

Blend with water, ginger, salt until smooth. Add only enough water to make everything smooth. Should be about the consistency of Tahini.
Pour mixture into a saucepan, add 12oz water and chili peppers. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 30 minutes.
While this mixture simmers, combine desired meat (chicken, beef, shrimp, tofu), salt, maggi, roma tomatoes, onions, and 16 ounces of water in a separate large soup-pot. Bring to a boil and simmer, adding water as needed.
Now, combine the two pots together by adding the peanut mixture to the larger of the two pans containing the meat. Again add water as needed. We are cooking on kerosene burners that are hard to control, so the amount of water may need to be adjusted to your cookware. The final consistency should be like a thick creamy soup.
Allow this to simmer for 15 minutes.
Then remove all the larger pieces of vegetable: tomato, onion, pepper. Place these in a blender with enough liquid from soup to effectively blend. Once the mixture is smooth, pour back into the soup-pan.
Simmer for 45 minutes.
Serve hot over rice and with shredded cabbage.
Personal opinion: peanuts should always be sold in recycled liquor bottles.