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

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Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something that I have 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 must prepare a few components. You can cook indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam) using 27 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Instructions 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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