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

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

In this video we are making Indonesian Chicken Soup! It is called Soto Ayam in Indonesian. Since Fall and colder weather is beginning I thought.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

That's as close as you can get outside Indonesia I think. They are mad for Indonesian in the Netherlands. 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.

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)

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. The recipe is adapted from Wendy Hutton's beautiful book 'Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass'.

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