Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)

Soto ayam is certainly one of my family preferred meals. In Indonesian language, soto means soup and ayam way hen. I constantly make this in a lazy way, the use of a gradual cooker 😊 (very untraditional manner to cook dinner Soto Ayam in Indonesia). Please do no longer get intimidated by the long list of elements. It may not appearance a good deal from the picture, however it's far very delicious and tremendously flavorful.

Ingredients

• 2 lbs chook thigh (boneless)
• 2 L (8 cups) water
• 4 bay leaves
• 5 kaffir lime leaves
• 2 lemon grass (the white component best), 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 floor coriander
• 1 teaspoon floor cummin
• 5 candlenut

Accompaniments and Garnishes :

• Glass noodle, soaked in warm boiling water till tender then drained
• Shredded cabbage
• Cooked rice
• Homemade potato chips (elective)
• Scallion stalk/chives, finely chopped
• Shrimp crackers, procedure in a meals processor till they get powdery (non-obligatory)
• Fried shallots (non-compulsory)
• 6 tough boiled eggs

Steps

1. In a frying pan, heat 3 tablespoon of oil and stir fry the spice paste, bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass and galangal till fragrant, about 2-3 minutes. Keep stirring to keep away from burning.
2. Turn the warmth off. Transfer everything from the frying pan to a gradual cooker. Add fowl, water, chopped celery, salt, sugar and white pepper. Set on low. Cook for 6 hours. Taste and regulate salt/pepper as needed.
3. Take the fowl out and let them cool. Shred the beef.
4. How to serve : Prepare bowls, upload into every bowl some glass noodle, a few shredded cabbage, a few shredded fowl, 1 difficult boil egg, garnish with some chopped scallion, fried shallots, potato chips and ground shrimp crackers. Pour in the soup. To make a extra filling meal, it's miles not unusual in Indonesia to serve Soto Ayam with a bowl of heat white rice. Sometimes I also add a few clean sliced tomatoes.
5. I made candy potato chips instead of potato chips. I sliced the candy potatoes thinly the use of a 1 mm slicing blade in a food processor then soaked them in salt water for an hour then deep fried them. Do the equal thing in case you use potatoes.

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