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>>4447343
the soup:
fry some onions or shallottes, garlic and ginger. add broth/stock. cook on medium heat for 10-20 minutes. In a mixing bowl, stir together tomato sauce, peanut and a few cups of your soup. Mix well and add everything to the pot.
Add some green veggies of your choice and cook for another 15 minutes. Add spices of your choice (In west africa they use a lot of thyme, nutmeg, pepper, cumin and curry powder). Garnish with crushed peanuts. Get some hotsauce on the table for further to seasoning, if wished. You can serve it over rice, with fufu or with bread.

The jollof rice:
again fry some onions, garlic and minced ginger. Add some tomatoes and stock and cook until you have a tomato sauce (or simply have ready made tomato sauce). Then add the rice to the stock/tomato sauce mix and cook it in that mix. When the rice is done add veggies of your choice (okra is nice), peas, maybe beans and, if you want, some meat that you cooked separately (using thyme and onions). Let everything simmer together for a while and season with similar spices as the soup. Adding coconut milk is also common.

Bananas:
cut into cubes or slices and fry in oil. serve hot, and, if wanted, with salt.

btw using maggie/knorr cubes for the stock is not unauthentic, albeit lazy.