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

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, soto ayam (indonesian chicken soup). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook soto ayam (indonesian chicken soup) using 27 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup):
  1. Get 2 lbs chicken thigh (boneless)
  2. Prepare 2 L (8 cups) water
  3. Prepare 4 bay leaves
  4. Take 5 kaffir lime leaves
  5. Make ready 2 lemon grass (the white part only), bruised
  6. Make ready 1 inch dried galangal
  7. Take 2 celery stalks, chopped
  8. Prepare 3 teaspoon salt
  9. Take 1 teaspoon sugar
  10. Take 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
  11. Take Grind the following into spice paste :
  12. Prepare 7 shallots
  13. Take 5 garlic cloves
  14. Get 2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  15. Prepare 2 teaspoon ginger powder
  16. Get 2 teaspoon ground coriander
  17. Take 1 teaspoon ground cummin
  18. Take 5 candlenut
  19. Get Accompaniments and Garnishes :
  20. Prepare Glass noodle, soaked in hot boiling water until soft then drained
  21. Make ready Shredded cabbage
  22. Prepare Cooked rice
  23. Prepare 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. Get Fried shallots (optional)
  27. Make ready 6 hard boiled eggs
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.

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