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

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The ultimate comforting Asian noodle soup - soto ayam or Indonesian Chicken Noodle Soup. Flavoured with turmeric and coconut and served with rice noodles. Soto ayam is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam) using 27 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam):
  1. Get For Broth
  2. Get Chicken (i use around 300gr)
  3. Get 1 litre Water for boil
  4. Get 3 Bay Leaves
  5. Get 2 tbsp Lemon grass powder (fresh will be better)
  6. Take 1 tsp dried Galangal (fresh will better)
  7. Prepare 1 tbsp ginger powder + 1 dried ginger (fresh will be better)
  8. Take 1 tsp coriander seeds
  9. Make ready 2 tbsp turmeric powder
  10. Prepare 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. Prepare 2 candlenuts
  15. Take 1/4 nutmeg since i dont wan't strong taste of it
  16. Take Salt
  17. Prepare For Servings
  18. Prepare Boiled eggs
  19. Take White cabbage - shredded
  20. Make ready Green onion - chopped
  21. Get Bean sprouts
  22. Make ready 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. Get Sambal (chili sauce/ paste)
  27. Take Sweet soya sauce

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. 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.

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)

The recipe is adapted from Wendy Hutton's beautiful book 'Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass'. 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. Soto ayam, an Indonesian version of chicken soup, is a clear herbal broth brightened by fresh turmeric and herbs, with skinny rice noodles buried in the bowl.

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