Recipe: Delicious Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam)

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam). The ultimate comforting Asian noodle soup - soto ayam or Indonesian Chicken Noodle Soup. Flavoured with turmeric and coconut and served with rice noodles. Soto ayam, an Indonesian version of chicken soup, is a clear herbal broth brightened by fresh turmeric and herbs, with skinny rice noodles buried in the bowl.

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

They are mad for Indonesian in the Netherlands. When the chicken is cool enough to handle, shred or roughly chop the meat. An extremely comforting soup, but also elegant enough for a dinner party. It is actually more of a stew than a soup, so serve it with both fork and spoon.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Soto Ayam) step by step

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).

This soup/stew is full of flavours and textures. The recipe is adapted from Wendy Hutton's beautiful book 'Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass'. 'Soto' means soup and 'ayam' is chicken. It's an Indonesian chicken soup with noodles that is the go-to street food breakfast for many locals. But if there's one thing that Indonesians seem to agree on, that's that soto ayam is the country's chicken noodle soup for the soul. Soto Ayam, an Indonesian chicken noodle soup.