Serves 2 people
1 whole chicken
10 shallots
5 garlic cloves
5 candlenuts
3 piece turmeric (15cm)
ginger (5cm piece)
galangal (3 cmpiece)
3 bay leaves
3 lime leaves
coriander
pepper
sugar
salt
lemongrass
2 L water
vermicelli (blanched)
bean sprouts
white cabbage
chopped celery
fried shallots
lime cut in 1/2
shredded fried chicken

Recipe Courtesy of
Asian Food Network

Soto Ayam

Soto ayam is a yellow spicy chicken soup with lontong or nasi himpit or ketupat (all compressed rice that is then cut into small cakes) and/or vermicelli or noodles, it is from Indonesia. Turmeric is added as one of its ingredients to get yellow chicken broth. It is probably the most popular variant of soto, a traditional soup commonly found in Indonesian cuisine. Besides chicken and vermicelli, it can also be served with hard-boiled eggs, slices of fried potatoes.Occasionally, people will add "koya", a powder of mixed prawn crackers with fried garlic or orange colored spicy sambal, krupuk or emping is a very common topping.

Difficulty: Easy

Preparation: 10 min
Cook: 20 min
Clean up: 15 min

Steps: 3 steps
22 Ingredients

Difficulty: Easy
Steps: 3 steps
22 Ingredients

Preparation: 10 min
Cook: 20 min
Clean up: 15 min

Instructions

Blend & fry paste
- In a blender, add ginger, galangal, shallots, turmeric powder, chili, candlenuts, coriander powder, white peppercorns and 200 ml vegetable oil. Blend into a paste.
- Add spice paste into cooker and select the SAUTE/SEAR, HIGH TEMP option then select START.
- Fry for 10 minutes, or until oil separates from the paste.Add lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves.

Boil Chicken Soup/broth
- To the cooker, add 2 L water, chicken and 4 tbsp salt. Pour spice paste to the chicken broth, and let it boil for 10 minutes.

Fry chicken, shred & plate

Fry chicken in oil until golden brown, then shred. In a separate bowl, place the vermicelli, cabbage, bean sprouts and build up around the bowl, the top the shredded chicken and diced tomato. Then pour the hot blended soto into the bowl.

Plate and Serve!

| Ensure that all ingredients is finely mixed and sautéed until cooked, to avoid a foul /unpleasant odour/after taste of raw/uncooked ingredientsof the broth/soto

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Name: Soto Ayam
Prep time: P0Y0M0D0H10M0S
Cook time: P0Y0M0D0H20M0S
Total time: P0Y0M0D0H30M0S
Yield: Serves 2 people
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken; 10 shallots; 5 garlic cloves; 5 candlenuts; 3 piece turmeric (15cm); ginger (5cm piece); galangal (3 cmpiece); 3 bay leaves; 3 lime leaves; coriander; pepper; sugar; salt; lemongrass; 2 L water; vermicelli (blanched); bean sprouts; white cabbage; chopped celery; fried shallots; lime cut in 1/2; shredded fried chicken