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

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, soto ayam (indonesian yellow chicken soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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):
  1. Get 500 ml vegetable oil to fry the chicken
  2. Prepare 1 whole chicken, divided into 4
  3. Get 2 lt water
  4. Take 8 kaffir lime leaves
  5. Get 4 stalks lemongrass, take the white part only (which is on the bottom), pounded
  6. Prepare 4 green onions, chopped
  7. Prepare 1,5 tsp salt or to taste
  8. Get 1/2 tsp white pepper powder or to taste
  9. Take 1/2 tsp chicken bouillon
  10. Get 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
  11. Make ready Ground spices: (blend in a food processor)
  12. Get 7 cloves garlic
  13. Make ready 8 cloves shallots
  14. Prepare 3 pcs candle nuts
  15. Make ready 1 tsp nutmegs powder
  16. Take 3 cm turmeric
  17. Get 2 cm ginger
  18. Get 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
  19. Get Koya topping: Grind 5 cloves fried garlic + 8 fried prawn crackers using a mortal and pestle
  20. Make ready For the complement:
  21. Take 4 hard boiled eggs, peeled, cut
  22. Get 50 gr mung bean vermicelli, soaked in boiled water for 3 minutes, removed from the heat, drained
  23. Take 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.

Instructions to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Add chopped green onions into the soup.
  4. In a pan, fry the chicken for a while in vegetable oil. Remove from the heat. Cut the chicken into small pieces.
  5. 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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