Steps to Make Favorite Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)
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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) is 4 - 6 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup) using 27 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
Soto ayam is one of my family favorite food. In Indonesian language, soto means soup and ayam means chicken. I always make this in a lazy way, using a slow cooker 😊 (very untraditional way to cook Soto Ayam in Indonesia). Please do not get intimidated by the long list of ingredients. It may not look much from the photo, but it is very delicious and incredibly flavorful.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup):
- 2 lbs chicken thigh (boneless)
- 2 L (8 cups) water
- 4 bay leaves
- 5 kaffir lime leaves
- 2 lemon grass (the white part only), bruised
- 1 inch dried galangal
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 3 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
- Grind the following into spice paste :
- 7 shallots
- 5 garlic cloves
- 2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 teaspoon ginger powder
- 2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cummin
- 5 candlenut
- Accompaniments and Garnishes :
- Glass noodle, soaked in hot boiling water until soft then drained
- Shredded cabbage
- Cooked rice
- Homemade potato chips (optional)
- Scallion stalk/chives, finely chopped
- Shrimp crackers, process in a food processor until they get powdery (optional)
- Fried shallots (optional)
- 6 hard boiled eggs
Instructions to make Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)
- 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.
- 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.
- Take the chicken out and let them cool. Shred the meat.
- 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. - 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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