Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, soto ayam (indonesian chicken soup). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have soto ayam (indonesian chicken soup) using 27 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup):
- Make ready 2 lbs chicken thigh (boneless)
- Make ready 2 L (8 cups) water
- Take 4 bay leaves
- Take 5 kaffir lime leaves
- Take 2 lemon grass (the white part only), bruised
- Take 1 inch dried galangal
- Prepare 2 celery stalks, chopped
- Get 3 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon sugar
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
- Make ready Grind the following into spice paste :
- Take 7 shallots
- Take 5 garlic cloves
- Prepare 2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Get 2 teaspoon ginger powder
- Take 2 teaspoon ground coriander
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cummin
- Make ready 5 candlenut
- Get Accompaniments and Garnishes :
- Prepare Glass noodle, soaked in hot boiling water until soft then drained
- Take Shredded cabbage
- Prepare Cooked rice
- Make ready Homemade potato chips (optional)
- Take Scallion stalk/chives, finely chopped
- Prepare Shrimp crackers, process in a food processor until they get powdery (optional)
- Take Fried shallots (optional)
- Get 6 hard boiled eggs
Prepared with a simple aromatic chicken broth that's infused with Asian spices, this soup is flavourful on its own. But, when generously ladled over noodles, topped with chunky, juicy, tender chicken pieces, slices of boiled eggs, and sprinkled with thinly sliced spring onions. In Indonesian language, soto means soup and ayam means chicken. I always make this in a lazy way, using a slow cooker 😊 (very untraditional way to cook Soto Ayam in Indonesia).
Steps to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup):
- 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.
- 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.
- Take the chicken out and let them cool. Shred the meat.
- 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.
- 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.
In Indonesian language, soto means soup and ayam means chicken. I always make this in a lazy way, using a slow cooker 😊 (very untraditional way to cook Soto Ayam in Indonesia). Please do not get intimidated by the long list of ingredients. It may not look much from the photo, but it is very delicious and incredibly flavorful. 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.
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