page_title: Peanut soup
hierarchical_section_title: Peanut soup
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of a plate of fufu made from mashed potato &amp; farina, and a bowl of peanut soup made by my mum&#160;;)
context_page_description: Peanut soup or groundnut soup is a soup made from peanuts, often with various other ingredients. It is a staple of African cuisine but is also eaten in East Asia, the United States and other areas around the world. It is also common in various Latin American regions, such as Argentina, Bolivia and Peru, where it can sometimes be served with bone meat and hollow short pasta or fries. In Ghana it is often eaten with fufu or omo tuo. Groundnut soup is also a native soup of the Benin people in Nigeria and it is often eaten with pounded yam. Some of the essential ingredients used in making it are Piper guineense and Vernonia amygdalina.
  It is a delicacy that is prepared from groundnut which is mashed into a paste, usually termed as groundnut paste. Groundnut soup is eaten with fufu, banku, kenkey and so on. It is a delicacy that Ghanaian and people in other African countries consume, such as in Sierra Leone. It is popularly known by Ghanaians in an Akan language called Nkatenkwan.
context_section_description: Peanut soup or groundnut soup is a soup made from peanuts, often with various other ingredients. It is a staple of African cuisine but is also eaten in East Asia (Taiwan), the United States (mainly in Virginia) and other areas around the world. It is also common in various Latin American regions, such as Argentina, Bolivia and Peru, where it can sometimes be served with bone meat and hollow short pasta or fries. In Ghana it is often eaten with fufu or omo tuo. Groundnut soup is also a native soup of the Benin (Edo) people in Nigeria and it is often eaten with pounded yam. Some of the essential ingredients used in making it are Piper guineense (uziza seed) and Vernonia amygdalina (bitter leaf).
  It is a delicacy that is prepared from groundnut which is mashed into a paste, usually termed as groundnut paste. Groundnut soup is eaten with fufu, banku, kenkey and so on. It is a delicacy that Ghanaian and people in other African countries consume, such as in Sierra Leone. It is popularly known by Ghanaians in an Akan language called Nkatenkwan.
caption: West African peanut soup with fufu
exif: {"Image Make": "Sony Ericsson", "Image Model": "K800i", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "R8BF003     prgCXC1250210_GENERIC_W 0.0", "Image DateTime": "2009:01:15 20:14:57", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "258", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "736", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3805", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/8", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "640", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2009:01:15 20:14:57", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2009:01:15 20:14:57", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "CenterWeightedAverage", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2048", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1536", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "600", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "2"}