Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam). 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, 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.

A great way to to use up leftover ingredients such as veggies, herbs, eggs and meat. Customize to your taste with soy sauce, chili sauce, citrus and vinegars. The temperatures have dipped so I am deep into my annual tradition of exploring more soups. You can have Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) using 27 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)

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

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 is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style. Soto Ayam, an Indonesian chicken noodle soup.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) step by step

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).

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. Soto ayam (chicken soup in Indonesian language) is the chicken version. The most commonly used name for this chicken noodle soup is soto but it has other names depending on the region. In Pekalongan, it is called tauto, and in Makassar, it is known as coto.