Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, soto ayam (indonesian yellow chicken soup). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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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, and popular in Singapore, Malaysia and Suriname. Turmeric is added as one of its ingredients to get yellow chicken broth. The ultimate comforting Asian noodle soup - soto ayam or Indonesian Chicken Noodle Soup. Flavoured with turmeric and coconut and served with rice.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook soto ayam (indonesian yellow chicken soup) using 23 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup):
- Make ready 500 ml vegetable oil to fry the chicken
- Get 1 whole chicken, divided into 4
- Get 2 lt water
- Get 8 kaffir lime leaves
- Get 4 stalks lemongrass, take the white part only (which is on the bottom), pounded
- Prepare 4 green onions, chopped
- Prepare 1,5 tsp salt or to taste
- Prepare 1/2 tsp white pepper powder or to taste
- Take 1/2 tsp chicken bouillon
- Prepare 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- Get Ground spices: (blend in a food processor)
- Make ready 7 cloves garlic
- Take 8 cloves shallots
- Get 3 pcs candle nuts
- Prepare 1 tsp nutmegs powder
- Take 3 cm turmeric
- Get 2 cm ginger
- Prepare 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
- Get Koya topping: Grind 5 cloves fried garlic + 8 fried prawn crackers using a mortal and pestle
- Make ready For the complement:
- Take 4 hard boiled eggs, peeled, cut
- Take 50 gr mung bean vermicelli, soaked in boiled water for 3 minutes, removed from the heat, drained
- Prepare some lime wedges
Turmeric is the ingredient that makes yellow, coupled with spices like cumin, fennel, star anise, and cinnamon, and there is no other chicken soup that. The original recipe require fresh ginger and turmeric,i modify it with the powder,since those i have on hand. This is kemiri or candle nut. Pretty much essential in Indonesian cooking.
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! 😋
This is kemiri or candle nut. Pretty much essential in Indonesian cooking. But you can substitute with macadamia or raw almond nut. My mom always said,never let one nut keep you away from cooking✌️. Soto Ayam is a chicken soup popular in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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