Recipe: Tasty Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)

Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup). 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 shallots, celery leaves and herbs, and is hearty enough for a meal. Soto ayam is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style.

That's as close as you can get outside Indonesia I think. They are mad for Indonesian in the Netherlands. This version of the classic Indonesian chicken soup comes from the Hyatt Regency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. You can cook Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) using 27 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)

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

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Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) step by step

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..

I make this when I don't have the time to make it the traditional way using a whole chicken. Soto ayam is a yellow spicy chicken soup with lontong or nasi himpit or ketupat (all compressed rice that is then cut into small cakes) and/or vermicelli or noodles, it is from Indonesia. 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. Indonesian Chicken Noodle Soup (Soto Ayam).

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