Squash & Peanut Soup

African Inspiration, Autumnal AF

This soup is a riff on maafé, a West African stew with sweet potatoes and peanuts (you’ll see countless variations from Senegal to Ghana and beyond), but swapping squash in for the spuds and using East African berbere for a gently Ethiopian inclination. The result is one of the better things I’ve made lately, and the addition of beef broth and crisp cho…