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

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, indonesian chicken soup (soto ayam). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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.

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