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

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first 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. Prepare For Broth
  2. Prepare Chicken (i use around 300gr)
  3. Make ready 1 litre Water for boil
  4. Take 3 Bay Leaves
  5. Get 2 tbsp Lemon grass powder (fresh will be better)
  6. Make ready 1 tsp dried Galangal (fresh will better)
  7. Make ready 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. Get 1 tsp white pepper
  13. Make ready 1 tsp cumin powder
  14. Take 2 candlenuts
  15. Get 1/4 nutmeg since i dont wan't strong taste of it
  16. Take Salt
  17. Get For Servings
  18. Prepare Boiled eggs
  19. Take White cabbage - shredded
  20. Take Green onion - chopped
  21. Make ready Bean sprouts
  22. Get Perkedel
  23. Prepare Fried onion (see in my other recipe)
  24. Prepare Vermicelli noodles (i don't have, i use rice)
  25. Get Kaffir limes (i use lemon)
  26. Get 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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