Creamy Peanut Soup

photo by AcadiaTwo


- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
8 cups
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 3⁄4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 3⁄4 cup celery, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 1⁄2 cups smooth peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- coarsely chopped peanuts (to garnish)
directions
- In a large saucepan, melt butter over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, celery, red pepper flakes and garlic.
- Cook 5 minutes or until tender.
- Sprinkle flour over mixture.
- Stirring constantly, cook one minutes until well blended.
- Whisking constantly, add chicken broth, peanut butter and soy sauce.
- Reduce heat to medium-low; whisking frequently, simmer about 15 minutes.
- Garnish with peanuts and serve hot.
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Nice fresh ingredients, but very bland flavor. I made half a recipe just to check it out. I put in more soy sauce and pepper flake, and added cumin, white pepper, a bouillon cube, and more chicken broth because it was thick as pancake batter. I don't think it needs have flour in it as a thickener - the peanut butter made it thick enough. It still lacked something, so I added a half-cup of leftover homemade spaghetti sauce (no meat) because I saw other recipes called for some tomato. It was better, but I won't bother making it again. I have eaten peanut soup in restaurants, which I enjoyed. I'll just stick with Asian noodles with peanut sauce for my savory use of peanut butter!
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