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Ghanaian Groundnut Soup
A rich, deeply flavoured West African peanut soup simmered with chicken, tomatoes and aromatic spices — the soul of Ghanaian cooking.
⏱ 80 min🔥 580 kcalMedium
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14 recipes using tomatoes — Groundnut soup, kelewele, jollof — vibrant and richly spiced West African cooking.
These 14 ghanaian tomatoes recipes are ready in about 83 minutes on average, with 280–620 kcal per serving, and 29% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Ghanaian cuisine — Groundnut soup, kelewele, jollof — vibrant and richly spiced West African cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Ghanaian cooks work with tomatoes, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are boiling, simmering, frying and steaming.
Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with tomato paste, scotch bonnet peppers, chicken pieces, garlic, fresh ginger and onion. The dishes here span ghanaian classics ready in as little as 60 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Ghanaian Jollof Rice (Smoky Tomato Rice with Long-Grain) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,380 ratings.
A rich, deeply flavoured West African peanut soup simmered with chicken, tomatoes and aromatic spices — the soul of Ghanaian cooking.
Tender rice and black-eyed peas cooked together with dried sorghum leaves for a deep reddish-brown colour, served with stew, egg and wele — Ghana's most iconic street food.
A vibrant stew of black-eyed peas cooked in a rich palm oil and tomato sauce, served with fried sweet plantain — Ghana's most popular everyday dish.
Fermented corn and cassava dough formed into smooth dumplings, served with whole grilled tilapia, shito and fresh pepper sauce — a quintessential Ghanaian coastal meal.
A rich and warming Ghanaian peanut soup made with chicken, tomatoes, and aromatic spices — deeply flavorful and traditionally served with fufu or rice.
Ghana's vibrant, smoky one-pot rice — cooked in a tomato-pepper base infused with spices until each grain is deeply flavored, served with fried chicken and fried plantain.
Ghana's beloved red palm oil black-eyed pea stew with ripe fried plantains — a simple, nourishing staple.
Smooth, pounded cassava and plantain fufu served in a clear, peppery palm nut or tomato soup.
Ghana's version of West Africa's most contested dish — long-grain rice cooked in a rich, smoky tomato and pepper base, flavoured with bay, ginger and a hint of smoke from the 'bottom pot'. The party rice.
Ghana's essential everyday soup — a thin, deeply flavoured tomato broth with goat, chicken or fish, whole scotch bonnets and tomatoes. Always served over fufu or with rice balls.
Rich, fragrant peanut soup with chicken and tomatoes — one of Ghana's most celebratory dishes.
Ghanaian rich palm nut soup with chicken, crab and smoked fish — a deeply traditional Akan soup.
Ghana's iconic burgundy rice-and-beans tinted with sorghum leaves, served with stew, shito, gari, and fried plantain.
Ghana's beloved smoky-spiced tomato rice, slow-simmered until each grain absorbs the rich red sauce — and a crispy bottom layer forms.
Ripe tomatoes smell fragrant at the stem and give slightly to a gentle squeeze. For cooking out of season, good-quality tinned tomatoes often beat pale fresh ones.
Store at room temperature, never the fridge, which kills their flavour and texture. Score and blanch to slip off skins; salting slices draws out excess water for salads.
A low-calorie source of vitamin C, potassium and the antioxidant lycopene — which actually becomes more available when tomatoes are cooked.
Most of these 14 Ghanaian tomatoes recipes are ready in around 83 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Red Red — Ghanaian Bean Stew, takes about 60 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 100 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 280 to 620 kcal per serving, averaging 493 kcal — Ghanaian Light Soup (Nkrakra) is the lightest option at 280 kcal.
Waakye — Ghanaian Rice and Beans is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 80 minutes. 29% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, tomatoes is most often paired with tomato paste, scotch bonnet peppers, chicken pieces, garlic, fresh ginger and onion. Ghanaian kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.