Thursday, July 19, 2018

How to Cook Soto Ayam / Indonesian Yellow Soup


Indonesia is known as its legendary dishes with rich seasoned taste. One of them is Soto Ayam or in English means Yellow Chicken Soup. This is my favorite BREAKFAST hahah.. So as my mother often cook Soto I'd like to share the recipe here. But I think with plenty traditional ingredients that is needed to cook this, it will be quite hard to find some outside Indonesia. So, check it out :

Ingredients :

Blended ingredients : 
4 onion (large)
4 garlic (large)
around 2-3 cm turmeric
kemiri / candle nut (optional)
pepper

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Chicken
around 2-3 cm ginger
2  stalks of lemongrass leaves (small)
4 pieces of lime leaves
around 2-3 cm cinnamon
celery
tomato

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salt
sugar
seasonings

 Steps :
1. Boiled the chicken in a big pot with some water – add some salt, sugar, seasonings.
2. heat up the pan with 3 tbs of oil and put all of the blended all ingredients.
3. Cooked the blended ingredients along with ginger, lemongrass, lime leaves, and cinnamon until it cooked. 
4. Put the cooked ingredients into the boiled chicken, leave it for 20 to 30 minutes
5. After 20 minutes, season with salt, pepper and sugar and let it cooked.
 6. You can serve with noodles, boiled eggs, bean sprouts, fries in the bowl and pour the soto soup as you wish.
7. Eat with rice, sambal and  prawn crackers.