Soto Ayam (Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup)

Soto ayam (English; Chicken Soto/ Indonesian Yellow Chicken Soup) is a common food in Indonesia. Right now, every area in Indonesia has their own 'soto'. Soto Kudus, Soto Sokaraja, Soto Madura, Soto Surabaya, Soto Makasar, etc. Even though the first name of the dish is the same indeed they have a slightly different recipe. So don't get wrong, every area has their own 'soto' specialty. I have left over roast chicken so I just used it to make Chicken Soto accompanied by chicken satay. Here it  is the recipe, I got it from my mom:

Ingredients:

Cooked rice

50 gr bean thread noodles (Suun), boil it for 5 minutes and drain it

100 gr of chicken (I used left over roast chicken, if you don't have it, just use fried chicken or cooked chicken, shred it)

50 gr bean sprouts, casting it with the hot water

2 stalks green onion, chopped thinly

3 cloves of garlic (sliced thinly and deep fry it)

2 Indian bay leaves

2 cm of galangal, bruised it

1 stalk lemongrass, bruised it

2 cups of chicken broth

3/4 cup of water

Spices to blend:

3 shallots

3 cloves garlic

2 candle nuts

1 cm of ginger

a little bit of kaemferia galangal (kencur)

1 1/2 tsp turmeric powder

2 tsp of coriander powder

1 tsp white pepper powder

2 1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

Chicken satay:

75 gr cooked chicken, cubed it

3 pieces of chicken liver, marinated it with 2 tsp of salt and 1 1/2 coriander powder and 50 ml water, let it sit for around 10 minutes

7 skewers 

Condiment:

Sweet soy sauce

Chili sauce (sambal)

Limes

Direction:

Blend all the spices above. Using a pot, stir fry blended spices with a little bit of oil altogether with galangal, bay leaves and lemongrass until fragrant.

Add chicken broth and water, let it boil. 

While waiting for the broth, you can start to deep fry the chicken livers until brown. Cubed it. 

Arrange the cubed chicken and livers in skewers. Dip it into the soup broth. 

How to assembly:

In a bowl, arrange together cooked rice, cooked bean threads (suun), bean sprouts and shredded chicken.

Pour the soup broth and sprinkle with chopped green onions and deep fried garlic.  

Put the chicken satay in the edge of the bowl.

We usually eat it with sweet soy sauce, chili sauce (sambal) and squeezed limes. 

Serving 2 people