Sunflower Soup (Sup Bunga Matahari)
Sunflower Soup (Sup Bunga Matahari)

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sunflower soup (sup bunga matahari). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have sunflower soup (sup bunga matahari) using 25 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sunflower Soup (Sup Bunga Matahari):
  1. Make ready For the petal :
  2. Take 4 omelettes, no need to fold it (I used 9 inch skillet) āž” one egg + a pinch of salt is for making one flower
  3. Prepare For chicken mixture :
  4. Prepare 200 gr ground chicken
  5. Make ready 2 garlic cloves, press in a garlic press
  6. Get 20 gr tapioca flour
  7. Get 1 small egg
  8. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  9. Take 1/4 tsp sugar
  10. Make ready To taste ground white pepper
  11. Prepare For the flower :
  12. Get 1 hotdog/sausage, cut into 4
  13. Take as needed peas
  14. Make ready Vermicelli noodles as needed, soak until tender
  15. Get carrots as needed, shredded
  16. Make ready as needed sweet corn
  17. Make ready dried black ear mushrooms as needed, soak to bloom then thinly sliced
  18. Get For the broth :
  19. Take 2 cans (@14.5 oz) chicken broth
  20. Prepare 200 ml water
  21. Prepare 2 garlic cloves, smashed
  22. Get 2 green onion, cut 1/2 inch
  23. Prepare 1 celery stalk, cut 1/2 inch
  24. Take 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  25. Take to taste salt and ground pepper
Instructions to make Sunflower Soup (Sup Bunga Matahari):
  1. Mix all the ingredients of chicken mixture until well combined. Set aside. (Pan fry a tablespoon of it to taste if it needs more salt/sugar)
  2. Place one sheet of omelette on a plate or cutting board. Put the hotdog cut on the center. Arrange the vegetables and mushroom as you like. Spread the chicken mixture on top of the hotdog and vegetables. Fold the edge of the omelette up and over the chicken mixture around the perimeter to encase the filling.
  3. Line the steamer basket with alumunium foil. Place all the "sunflower" UPSIDE DOWN on it. Steam for 20 to 25 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, heat a little oil in a pot. Saute the garlic until fragrant. Add the chicken broth, water, green onion and celery Cook until it boils. Add salt and pepper if needed. Add the nutmeg. Simmer for a little while then turn the heat off. Strain the broth to get clear soup.
  5. To serve : Place one sunflower on a soup plate/salad bowl. Cut the surface of the omelette into six parts. Open each of them up. Pour the broth over it.

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