Recipe: Perfect Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam).

You can cook Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) using 27 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)

1. It's of For Broth.
2. It's of Chicken (i use around 300gr).
3. It's 1 litre of Water for boil.
4. You need 3 of Bay Leaves.
5. Prepare 2 tbsp of Lemon grass powder (fresh will be better).
6. It's 1 tsp of dried Galangal (fresh will better).
7. You need 1 tbsp of ginger powder + 1 dried ginger (fresh will be better).
8. You need 1 tsp of coriander seeds.
9. Prepare 2 tbsp of turmeric powder.
10. It's 5 cloves of garlic.
11. Prepare 2 of shallots (i used red onion).
12. You need 1 tsp of white pepper.
13. Prepare 1 tsp of cumin powder.
14. Prepare 2 of candlenuts.
15. It's 1/4 of nutmeg since i dont wan't strong taste of it.
16. It's of Salt.
17. Prepare of For Servings.
18. It's of Boiled eggs.
19. You need of White cabbage - shredded.
20. It's of Green onion - chopped.
21. Prepare of Bean sprouts.
22. You need of Perkedel.
23. Prepare of Fried onion (see in my other recipe).
24. It's of Vermicelli noodles (i don't have, i use rice).
25. You need of Kaffir limes (i use lemon).
26. You need of Sambal (chili sauce/ paste).
27. You need of Sweet soya sauce.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) instructions

1. Prepare Pot, put 1 litre water. Boil it. Add chicken and bay leaves.
2. Smash garlic, candlenuts, coriander seeds, ginger, galangal, nutmeg and onion until it become paste (you can use food processor).
3. Fry the paste add turmeric powder, lemongrass powder, cumin powder, salt & white pepper.
4. Add the fried seasonings above into pot.
5. After the chicken cooked well take chicken, let it cool and shred it..
6. Meanwhile prepare for servings, soak bean sprouts and white cabbage in hot water until it soft and rinse it.
7. The servings, shredded white cabbage, tomatoes, bean sprouts, shredded chicken, chopped green onions, boiled eggs, fried onion, fritter potato (Perkedel/ frikadel).
8. Meanwhile prepare your bowl, fill with vermicelli / rice / rice cake shredded cabagge, bean sprouts, sambal, green onion, boiled egg halved, add the broth. Add fried onion & perkedel.
9. With rice cake (Lontong).