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

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, soto ayam (indonesian chicken soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is something that I have loved my whole life.

Soto Ayam 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. Unlike a creamy soup, it's a clear soup with loads of ingredients and condiments. Bring to the boil, cover, lower heat, and simmer gently until the chicken is soft.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have soto ayam (indonesian chicken soup) using 27 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup):
  1. Take 2 lbs chicken thigh (boneless)
  2. Make ready 2 L (8 cups) water
  3. Get 4 bay leaves
  4. Take 5 kaffir lime leaves
  5. Prepare 2 lemon grass (the white part only), bruised
  6. Get 1 inch dried galangal
  7. Prepare 2 celery stalks, chopped
  8. Take 3 teaspoon salt
  9. Get 1 teaspoon sugar
  10. Take 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
  11. Prepare Grind the following into spice paste :
  12. Take 7 shallots
  13. Get 5 garlic cloves
  14. Prepare 2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  15. Take 2 teaspoon ginger powder
  16. Get 2 teaspoon ground coriander
  17. Get 1 teaspoon ground cummin
  18. Make ready 5 candlenut
  19. Take Accompaniments and Garnishes :
  20. Prepare Glass noodle, soaked in hot boiling water until soft then drained
  21. Make ready Shredded cabbage
  22. Take Cooked rice
  23. Prepare Homemade potato chips (optional)
  24. Prepare Scallion stalk/chives, finely chopped
  25. Make ready Shrimp crackers, process in a food processor until they get powdery (optional)
  26. Take Fried shallots (optional)
  27. Get 6 hard boiled eggs

Soto ayam is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style. My soto ayam recipe for the Indonesian chicken noodle soup is based on the Yogyakarta breakfast noodle soup, an aromatic chicken broth with rice noodles, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, shallots, ginger, coriander, turmeric, and cloves, that's eaten with deep fried shallots lime juice, and spicy sambal soto. Soto ayam, an Indonesian version of chicken soup, is a clear herbal broth brightened by fresh turmeric and herbs, with skinny rice noodles buried in the bowl. It is served with a boiled egg, fried.

Steps to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup):
  1. In a frying pan, heat 3 tablespoon of oil and stir fry the spice paste, bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass and galangal until fragrant, about 2-3 minutes. Keep stirring to avoid burning.
  2. Turn the heat off. Transfer everything from the frying pan to a slow cooker. Add chicken, water, chopped celery, salt, sugar and white pepper. Set on low. Cook for 6 hours. Taste and adjust salt/pepper as needed.
  3. Take the chicken out and let them cool. Shred the meat.
  4. How to serve : - Prepare bowls, add into each bowl some glass noodle, some shredded cabbage, some shredded chicken, 1 hard boil egg, garnish with some chopped scallion, fried shallots, potato chips and ground shrimp crackers. Pour in the soup. To make a more filling meal, it is common in Indonesia to serve Soto Ayam with a bowl of warm white rice. Sometimes I also add some fresh sliced tomatoes.
  5. I made sweet potato chips instead of potato chips. I sliced the sweet potatoes thinly using a 1 mm slicing blade in a food processor then soaked them in salt water for an hour then deep fried them. Do the same thing if you use potatoes.

Soto ayam, an Indonesian version of chicken soup, is a clear herbal broth brightened by fresh turmeric and herbs, with skinny rice noodles buried in the bowl. It is served with a boiled egg, fried. Soto ayam (chicken soup in Indonesian language) is the chicken version. The most commonly used name for this chicken noodle soup is soto but it has other names depending on the region. In Pekalongan, it is called tauto, and in Makassar, it is known as coto.

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