Muamba Nsusu (Congolese Chicken Soup)

Ingredients

• •1 whole chicken, cut up
• •1 large onion, chopped
• •Palm oil
• •1 small can tomato paste
• •1/2 cup peanut butter, natural or homemade, containing only peanuts and
• •salt
• •1 hot chili pepper or red or cayenne pepper, to taste

Directions

1. 1Fill a large pot with enough water for soup. Bring it to a boil. Add the chicken and boil it until the meat is done and a broth is obtained.
2. 2While the chicken is boiling, gently sauté the onion in several tablespoons of palm oil until the onion is tender.
3. 3Remove the chicken from the broth and remove meat from bones. Save the broth and keep it at a low simmer.
4. 4Combine one cup of the chicken broth with the peanut butter and tomato paste and stir until smooth.
5. 5Return the chicken meat to the broth and add the peanut butter-tomato paste mixture. Stir and continue to simmer until the soup is thickened.
6. 6Season to taste. Serve with rice or Baton de Manioc, or Fufu and more hot pepper.