What's the best tasting dish/recipe you've made lately?

Asked by rockfan (14627) September 27th, 2013 from iPhone

I had a “peanut and sweet potato soup” today. I thought it was extremely strange at first, but I loved it. Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

1 small bunch of cilantro
2 tablespoons of peanut oil
1 large onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 inch piece ginger, chopped
1½ teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground turmeric
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 pinches of ground cloves
1 cup crushed canned tomatoes
4 sweet potatoes, cut into cubes
Sea salt
½ cup organic peanut butter
½ cup salted roasted peanuts
Juice of 1 small lime
Red pepper flakes, to taste

Directions

Wash cilantro, including the stems, then separate the stems from the leaves. Finely slice the stems and set the leaves aside.

Warm oil in a soup pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and cilantro stems, and cook until soft, about ten minutes. Stir in garlic, ginger, and rest of the seasonings. Add tomatoes, sweet potatoes, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 4½ cups water. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer, partially covered until sweet potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Stir in the peanut butter.

Purée 3 cups of the soup in a blender until creamy. Stir the purée back into the pot. Stir in half the chopped cilantro leaves.

Chop the rest of the cilantro with the peanuts, leaving some texture, and mix in a few pinches of red pepper flakes and the lime juice. Pour soup into bowls and add a spoonful of the peanut-cilantro mixture to each.