Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam). Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup) is another popular dish in Indonesia. It is like chicken soup but the broth is yellow because of turmeric. It is served with glass noodles , fried or boiled potatoes, chicken, fried onions , emping (padi oats crackers), slices of hard boiled egg, blanched bean sprouts, parsley, and sometimes diced tomato.
Soto ayam is one of my family favorite food.
It's really tasty and hearty warmth to the soul.
I hope you will give it a try 😘.
You can cook Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
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).
- Prepare of boiled eggs.
- You need of shredded cabbage (boil a while till soften).
- You need of beansprout (boil a while, try not to overcook it).
- It's glass of noodle/mung bean noodle (boil till softened).
- Prepare of tomatoes (cut into pieces).
- It's of spring onion (for garnish).
- It's of fried shallot (for garnish).
- Prepare of lime, sweet soya sauce and chilli.
- It's of Put in the blender to make a paste (spices paste) :.
- It's 8 of shallots.
- You need 4 of garlics.
- It's 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.
- Prepare 3 pcs of candle nuts.
- Prepare 1 tsp of corriander seeds.
- Prepare of Additional spices: (no need to put in blender).
- Prepare 2 pcs of bay leaves.
- You need 5 pcs of lime leaves.
- It's 4 stalks of lemongrass (smashed).
Feel free to add boneless chicken for more meat later on. 'Soto' is a traditional Indonesian soup. There are many different kinds of soto. One of favorite is called 'Soto Ayam' from Surabaya, the capital city of East Java. It has yellow color broth and is composed of chicken meat, mung bean vermicelli, hard boiled eggs, and topped with koya (a powder of mixed prawn crackers and fried garlic).
Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) instructions
- 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!.
Great recipe for Instant Indonesian "Soto Ayam" (Yellow Chicken Soup). #indonesianfood Soto ayam is an Indonesian chicken soup. It's one of classic authentic Indonesian soup. We can eat it along with noodle or rice. I prefer using both with a little rice and a little noodle. Soto Ayam is a chicken noodle soup popular in Malaysia and Indonesia.