Name: Soto ayam
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 personnes
Cuisine: Indonésienne
Ingredients: 250 g chicken breast; 1.5 l chicken stock; vegetable oil; 4 shallot(s); 6 clove(s) garlic; 10 g turmeric; 3 candlenut(s); 0.5 tbsp coriander seeds; 1 tsp white pepper; 17 g galangal; 15 g fresh ginger; 3 kaffir lime leaf(s); 2 stalk(s) lemongrass; 3 tbsp vegetable oil; 0.5 tsp salt; 60 ml water; rice noodles; egg(s); spring onion; fried shallots; lime(s); bean sprouts

Recipe

30 min Medium

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Servings

4 personnes

Ingredients

Instructions

Preparing the soto ayam paste:

1Roughly chop the garlic cloves, shallots, and turmeric.
2Crush the ginger, galangal, and lemongrass with a mortar and pestle.
3Combine the shallots, garlic, turmeric, candlenuts, galangal, coriander seeds, white pepper, and water in a blender.
4Heat the vegetable oil in a pot and sauté the paste over high heat until it develops a strong aroma, for 1 to 2 minutes.
5Add the kaffir lime leaves, ginger, galangal, and lemongrass.
6Continue sautéing for 1 minute.

Cooking the chicken:

7Add the chicken stock to the soto ayam paste.
8Bring to a boil and add the chicken breast.
9Simmer over low heat for about 45 minutes or until the chicken is fully cooked.
10Remove the chicken from the broth once cooked and let it cool.
11Adjust the seasoning of the broth with salt if needed and set aside.
12Shred the chicken meat once cooled.

Assembly:

13Place the rice noodles, shredded chicken, eggs, bean sprouts, green onions, and celery leaves in a bowl.
14Pour in the hot broth.
15Garnish with fried shallots and squeeze the lime wedges just before eating.
16Serve with spicy sambal on the side.

About this dish

Soto ayam is a traditional Indonesian chicken soup, often considered comfort food. Rich and aromatic, this dish consists of chicken pieces simmered in a spiced, fragrant broth. Key spices include turmeric, which gives the soup its characteristic yellow color, as well as galangal, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaf. Once the chicken is cooked, it's often shredded or cut into pieces and put back in the broth. Soto ayam is usually served with rice, rice vermicelli, hard-boiled eggs, tomato slices, celery, parsley, and sometimes krupuk (shrimp chips) for crunch. Depending on the region of Indonesia, there can be slight variations in ingredients or toppings. It's commonly enjoyed with sambal (chili paste) for a spicy touch.