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Pindasoep

Name: Pindasoep
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Suriname
Ingredients: 400g Chicken Thigh; 5 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 Chili pepper; 2 tsp Chicken bouillon; 1 tsp Salt; 1.2L Water; 2 Green banana

Soup

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Rich chicken and peanut butter soup with banana dumplings — a Surinamese soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pindasoep is Suriname's peanut soup: peanut butter is dissolved into chicken broth for a thick finish, and it's eaten with tom tom (mashed green banana dumplings) floating in it. Pinda means peanut in Sranan Tongo. A Creole dish with African roots, it's a weekend treat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday in a Surinamese home, round banana dumplings float in thick peanut-colored soup served in bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 400g
Peanut butter 5 tbsp
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Chili pepper 1
Chicken bouillon 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 1.2L
Green banana 2

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the chicken, water, onion, tomato, chili, and stock powder in a pot for 40 minutes.
Thin the peanut butter with the broth, add, and simmer 15 minutes.
Boil the bananas in their skins, peel, and mash and knead with a pestle while hot.
Roll the banana into small dumplings.
Ladle the soup into bowls and float the dumplings on top.

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