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

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible 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. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Soto ayam is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style.

Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

Put the chicken, water, and salt in a saucepan. Bring to the boil, cover, lower heat, and simmer gently until the chicken is soft. When the chicken is cool enough to handle, discard the skin and remove the flesh from the bones, shredding it finely by hand. Soto Ayam, an Indonesian chicken noodle soup.

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.

When the chicken is cool enough to handle, discard the skin and remove the flesh from the bones, shredding it finely by hand. Soto Ayam, an Indonesian chicken noodle soup. This is an easy, healthy, homemade soup that can be made from scratch. 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.

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