Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)
Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam). Soto ayam is a yellow spicy Indonesian chicken soup with rice and/or vermicelli. Turmeric is added as one of its ingredients to get yellow chicken broth. Drain and divide among serving bowls.
One of the nice place to go when you are craving for Indonesian Yellow soup in East Surabaya. This place always hectic and full of people especially during lunch or dinner time. Soto Ayam, an Indonesian chicken noodle soup. You can cook Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)
- You need 1 of whole kampong chicken, take out the skin (optional but i prefer less oily soup).
- It's of boiled eggs.
- It's of shredded cabbage (boil a while till soften).
- It's of beansprout (boil a while, try not to overcook it).
- It's glass of noodle/mung bean noodle (boil till softened).
- It's of tomatoes (cut into pieces).
- It's of spring onion (for garnish).
- Prepare of fried shallot (for garnish).
- You need of lime, sweet soya sauce and chilli.
- You need of Put in the blender to make a paste (spices paste) :.
- It's 8 of shallots.
- You need 4 of garlics.
- Prepare 4 cm of fresh turmeric (i used turmeric powder as i dont have the fresh one at home, but my soup looks a bit pale).
- It's 4 cm of fresh ginger.
- It's 3 pcs of candle nuts.
- You need 1 tsp of corriander seeds.
- You need of Additional spices: (no need to put in blender).
- Prepare 2 pcs of bay leaves.
- It's 5 pcs of lime leaves.
- It's 4 stalks of lemongrass (smashed).
This is an easy, healthy, homemade soup that can be made from scratch. Prepared with a simple aromatic chicken broth that's infused with Asian spices, this soup is flavourful on its own. But, when generously ladled over noodles, topped with chunky, juicy. Soto ayam is chicken noodle soup - Indonesian style.
Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) step by step
- Homemade chilli (super spicy): 10 chilli padi, cut into small pieces. Boil chopped chillies in a little bit of water till very soft, reserve the water (do not let the water to dry up, otherwise will get burnt). Mashed with fork. Add salt, sugar, chicken seasoning powder to taste..
- Heat up 2 tbsp of oil, stir fry the paste spices till fragrant. Add in the remaining spices (bay leaves, lime leaves and lemongrass). Stir fry for an additional 2-3 mins..
- Boil about 4 lt of water. Add the chicken and the all the spices (paste and remaining spices). Cooked till chicken is soft. (stove pressure cooker about 15 mins, no pressure cooker maybe an hour).
- Add salt, pepper, chicken seasoning to taste..
- To serve: In a bowl, arrange the glass noddle, cabbage, bean sprout, chopped tomatoes, boiled egg, shredded chicken meat, spring onion, fried shallots, and pour the soup over it. We like to add: black sweet soya sauce, lime and chilli :) Enjoy!.
This is seriously tasty noodle soup. I've had soto ayam in the Netherlands. That's as close as you can get outside Indonesia I think. They are mad for Indonesian in the Netherlands. Soto ayam, meaning chicken soup, it's served throughout Indonesia.
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