I know the combination of peanut butter and tomato paste might scandalize some of you but this African Peanut Soup is here to prove you wrong.

The best argument we can give you is that this recipe has become one of our absolute favourites, since we first published it back in 2014.

When we first came up with this recipe, our chef Hauke gave up friends, free-time, and perhaps even a little bit of sanity for a week ? to create (drumroll please)? a vegan soup with peanut butter!

And put simply, it?s absolutely AMAZING.

The combination of peanut, ginger, garlic and tomato paste is just fantastic, and needs to be tried to be believed. Give this one a go and you?ll have a vegan soup recipe for life.

Why is it named ?African? peanut soup"
Well, this recipe is loosely based on a peanut soup recipe from West Africa, sometimes called maafe, groundnut soup, or West African peanut soup.

There are variations to be found throughout West Africa from Senegal to Mali to Nigeria, and all have their own twist. Regardless of those differences, it?s an important cultural staple from this region of Africa.

Our recipe is not, strictly speaking, the same as traditional groundnut soup, particularly those that include a form of meat.

BUT it does combine those same flavors of tomatoes and peanut butter. And both are served on a bed of rice, giving the recipe a similar feel.

I have to say thank you to the people in West Africa that came up with the combination of ...