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

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. 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 popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

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)

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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