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

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little 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 popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something that I have loved my whole life.

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