Last Nights Dinner 03.31.11

Posted: 03.31.11

African Sweet Potato Stew with Red Beans

This is by far one of my favorite meals I have ever made. The first time I made it was probably a year or so ago and it has been my favorite ever since. It has such an amazing flavor. The left overs are even better. Mmmm I could eat this everyday. The peanut butter in it just puts it over the top for me. So delicious!

Ingredients
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 garlic clove, minced
4 cups or so cubed peeled sweet potato
1 can, drained small red beans
1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon grated peeled fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
1 (4.5-ounce) can chopped green chiles, drained
3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
3 tablespoons chopped dry-roasted peanuts
6 lime wedges

Directions:
1. In a large pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; cover and cook 5 minutes or until tender.
2. Add sweet potato and next 10 ingredients (through chiles). Cover and cook on medium until sweet potatoes are tender. Maybe 30 mins.
3. Take a potato masher and mash up your stew so it becomes thick and chunky.
4. Spoon 1 cup cooking liquid into a small bowl. Add peanut butter; stir well with a whisk. Stir peanut butter mixture into stew.
5. Stir in handfuls of peanuts (how many is up to you)
6. Serve with lime wedges (and maybe some homemade cornbread)

Perfection!
I found this recipe from Cooking Light

Comments (20)

Caitlin

03.31.11

This looks so yummy! I love sweet potatoes so I am definitely going to try this recipe.
steffy

03.31.11

i just made something similar to this! i love cooking with peanut butter!

<3 steffy
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Miss Bibliophile

03.31.11

That sounds amazing (and amazingly easy)! Can’t wait to try it. I still love making the vegetarian shepherd’s pie recipe that you shared a while back.
Monique

03.31.11

I LOVE food with African flavors! I think I’m going to try this next week!
Chrissy

03.31.11

Awesome! I actually was just looking in my fridge at the pile of sweet potatoes and wondering what I was going to make with them so thanks for the inspiration
Rachel from Love a la mode

03.31.11

I’ve never heard of anything like this before, but it sounds delicious!!!
Bisous,
Rachel
http://lovealamode.wordpress.com
Jesse

03.31.11

sounds delicious, i love having more vegetarian options that have so much flavor.
Marn

03.31.11

I wonder if you could use a different kind of nut butter?
My boyfriend hates peanut butter (sad but true)

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Paige

03.31.11

will you write a cookbook? pretty please with sprinkles on top! and then come to my house and cook everything in the book? thanks, you’re a peach

but seriously. you could call it Jen Loves Veg: A Vegetarian Cook Book and then be on Oprah and eventually get your own tv show on the cooking network and produce a line of freezer meals and canned soups. or you can just sell it on here. i’d go for either.
Lola

03.31.11

That looks delish! I need to get in gear and make some before soup season is over.

-lola

http://trixieandlola.wordpress.com
Tracy

03.31.11

That sounds so good and I would have never thought to put peanut butter and sweet potatoes together…but I love them both. I can’t wait to try this!
Alena

03.31.11

I cooked this tonight, and it came out quite tasty. Thanks for sharing!

I did not have any peanuts on hand, so I omitted them. I did add a chicken breast and some cilantro though. Even my husband, who is not a fan of yams, liked it!
Bethany

03.31.11

On my way to the store – must make this right now!
Aimee

04.01.11

Wow – Jen, this looks so tasty! Since the cold is sticking around for the weekend, a chunky stew like this sounds perfect. I love sneaking PB into anything…and I bet the lime adds great flavor! Love the yellow plate and curvy white bowl, too. Food props make me swoon!
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Charlotte

04.01.11

wow, this looks and sounds gorgeous! I will definitely be making this next week!!

Charlotte xxx
kim

04.03.11

I’ve never cooked with sweet potatos but have been meaning to try them. I hate regular potatos :s. This stew looks like a nice starting point, I’d like to try it with cashews.
sami

04.04.11

yummy! i will have to try this! i just wrote about a great vegan cook book today that you must try! it’s so funny to be eating things that look like mush but taste amazing!

xo
sami
Melanie

04.08.11

I tried it out this week….LOVE it!! Such a tasty dish. A mix of all my favorite flavors! Thanks for the recipe!!
Mary Beth

04.11.11

I finally got around to making this last week and it was seriously AWESOME! Thank you so much for sharing. I have a standard lentil soup recipe that I make several times a year, and I think this soup might have just become its replacement!!