Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)
Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Soto ayam is a yellow spicy chicken soup with lontong or nasi himpit or ketupat (all compressed rice that is then cut into small cakes) and/or vermicelli or noodles, it is from Indonesia, and popular in Singapore, Malaysia and Suriname. When the chicken is cool enough to handle, shred or roughly chop the meat. Soto ayam is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style. This is seriously tasty noodle soup.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam) using 27 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam):
  1. Make ready For Broth
  2. Prepare Chicken (i use around 300gr)
  3. Prepare 1 litre Water for boil
  4. Take 3 Bay Leaves
  5. Get 2 tbsp Lemon grass powder (fresh will be better)
  6. Make ready 1 tsp dried Galangal (fresh will better)
  7. Take 1 tbsp ginger powder + 1 dried ginger (fresh will be better)
  8. Take 1 tsp coriander seeds
  9. Prepare 2 tbsp turmeric powder
  10. Prepare 5 cloves garlic
  11. Take 2 shallots (i used red onion)
  12. Take 1 tsp white pepper
  13. Take 1 tsp cumin powder
  14. Make ready 2 candlenuts
  15. Make ready 1/4 nutmeg since i dont wan't strong taste of it
  16. Get Salt
  17. Make ready For Servings
  18. Get Boiled eggs
  19. Make ready White cabbage - shredded
  20. Get Green onion - chopped
  21. Take Bean sprouts
  22. Make ready Perkedel
  23. Get Fried onion (see in my other recipe)
  24. Get Vermicelli noodles (i don't have, i use rice)
  25. Take Kaffir limes (i use lemon)
  26. Take Sambal (chili sauce/ paste)
  27. Prepare Sweet soya sauce

It is served with a boiled egg, fried shallots, celery leaves and herbs, and is hearty enough for a meal. Soto ayam is a chicken soup dish originated from Indonesia and is popular in Malaysia and Singapore. However, you have to take a paradigm shift to appreciate it. Unlike a creamy soup, it's a clear soup with loads of ingredients and condiments.

Steps to make Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam):
  1. Prepare Pot, put 1 litre water. Boil it. Add chicken and bay leaves
  2. Smash garlic, candlenuts, coriander seeds, ginger, galangal, nutmeg and onion until it become paste (you can use food processor)
  3. Fry the paste add turmeric powder, lemongrass powder, cumin powder, salt & white pepper
  4. Add the fried seasonings above into pot
  5. After the chicken cooked well take chicken, let it cool and shred it.
  6. Meanwhile prepare for servings, soak bean sprouts and white cabbage in hot water until it soft and rinse it
  7. The servings, shredded white cabbage, tomatoes, bean sprouts, shredded chicken, chopped green onions, boiled eggs, fried onion, fritter potato (Perkedel/ frikadel)
  8. Meanwhile prepare your bowl, fill with vermicelli / rice / rice cake shredded cabagge, bean sprouts, sambal, green onion, boiled egg halved, add the broth. Add fried onion & perkedel
  9. With rice cake (Lontong)

However, you have to take a paradigm shift to appreciate it. Unlike a creamy soup, it's a clear soup with loads of ingredients and condiments. An extremely comforting soup, but also elegant enough for a dinner party. It is actually more of a stew than a soup, so serve it with both fork and spoon. This soup/stew is full of flavours and textures.

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