Sweet Potato Peanut Stew
Sweet Potato Peanut Stew
What you need:
- 1/4 cup peanut/canola or olive oil plus 1 tsp
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 red or green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 fresh jalapeno or serrano pepper, seeded and minced
- 4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 packed tbls of minced, fresh, peeled ginger
- 1 tbls chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 sweet potatos or 3 if they are small
- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Water
- 12 oz of Ground beef, turkey or millet optional
- 2 small zucchini trimed and sliced
- 1/2 cup of peanut butter, chunky or smooth, unsalted is preferred
What you do:
- Heat up the 1/4 cup of oil.
- Chop up onion and peppers.
- Peel and cut up sweet potatos 1-1/2″ pieces.
- Cut up zucchini, as small or as large as you like.
- Cook onion and peppers until they are tender but not brown, about 6-7 mins.
- Add the garlic and ginger
- Cook for 2-3 minutes
- Add the chili powder, cumin and red pepper flakes.
- Cook for 1 minute
- Add sweet potato, tomato paste and salt and pepper.
- Add enough water to just barely cover the vegetables and mix well.
- Bring to a boil then lower the heat, cover and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Using 1 tsp oil cook the beef, turkey or millet(cook according to directions on package) at this time, set aside until stew has cooked 45 minutes.
- Add meat or millet and zucchini to stew.
- Cook 15 minutes
- Put the peanut butter in a bowl and add some of the hot liquid to the bowl to sofen the peanut butter.
- Add peanut butter mix to stew.
- Cook 15 minutes.
Enjoy!
