Sweet Potato Black Bean Chicken Soup

Broth:
2 lbs chicken with bones
3 carrots with tops
4 stalks celery
1 onion
6 garlic cloves
thyme

Homemade broth is really easy and totally worth it if you happen to be hanging out at home for a couple hours anyway.  Basically keep everything covered in water and boil for about 3 hours or until you're too impatient to wait any longer.  Take the chicken out after about 45 min. so you don't boil it into mush.  I pull the chicken off the bone as soon as its cool enough and then throw the bones back in.

Then I make broth I like to use a reusable mesh grain bag that i bought for homebrewing to put the veggies in. This eliminates trying to strain the steaming hot broth later.   Any homebrew shop will stock these and they're only about $10.

Soup:
1 onion
4-5 cups broth
1 medium sweet potato
1 can diced tomatoes
3 big scoops of chunky peanut butter
pulled chicken (from broth)
cooked black beans
chili garlic sauce
salt
pineapple (optional)

Instructions: 
saute onion in butter
add everything else and simmer to combine flavors
stir in pineapple before serving