Simple Way to Prepare Perfect Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup)
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‘Soto’ is a traditional Indonesian soup. There are many different kinds of soto. One of favorite is called ‘Soto Ayam’ from Surabaya, the capital city of East Java. It has yellow color broth and is composed of chicken meat, mung bean vermicelli, hard boiled eggs, and topped with koya (a powder of mixed prawn crackers and fried garlic). Turmeric is added as one of the ingredients to get the yellow color of the chicken broth. Please follow my Instagram @jenscookingdiary for the Indonesian recipes or @jenscookdineandtravel for the English recipes 🙏🏻😊😘
Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup):
- 500 ml vegetable oil to fry the chicken
- 1 whole chicken, divided into 4
- 2 lt water
- 8 kaffir lime leaves
- 4 stalks lemongrass, take the white part only (which is on the bottom), pounded
- 4 green onions, chopped
- 1,5 tsp salt or to taste
- 1/2 tsp white pepper powder or to taste
- 1/2 tsp chicken bouillon
- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- Ground spices: (blend in a food processor)
- 7 cloves garlic
- 8 cloves shallots
- 3 pcs candle nuts
- 1 tsp nutmegs powder
- 3 cm turmeric
- 2 cm ginger
- Chili sauce: Boil 5 bird eye chili peppers + 2 red chili peppers + 5 cloves garlic until soft. Remove from the heat. Grind all the ingredients using a mortar and pestle. Add 1/4 tsp salt
- Koya topping: Grind 5 cloves fried garlic + 8 fried prawn crackers using a mortal and pestle
- For the complement:
- 4 hard boiled eggs, peeled, cut
- 50 gr mung bean vermicelli, soaked in boiled water for 3 minutes, removed from the heat, drained
- some lime wedges
Steps to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup)
- Heat 1 Tbsp vegetable oil in the wok over medium-heat. Sauté the ground spices, kaffir lime leaves, and lemongrass until fragrant. Remove from the heat.
- Boil chicken and ground spices in a big pot until the chicken is cooked.Take out the chicken from the pot. Set the chicken aside.
- Add chopped green onions into the soup.
- In a pan, fry the chicken for a while in vegetable oil. Remove from the heat. Cut the chicken into small pieces.
- Place some white rice, some mung bean vermicelli, chicken meat, and some hard boiled eggs in a bowl. Pour the hot chicken broth into the bowl. Add some lime juice into the soup and koya topping on top. Yum! 😋
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