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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Indonesian Chicken Soup ( Soto Ayam )




This version of the classic Indonesian chicken soup comes from the hyatt Regency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia,
Make up to 2 days ahead, cook, cover, and chill chicken in seasoned broth.






Ingredients :

  • 1/3 cup peeled garlic cloves
  • 1 cup chopped shallots
  • 1/4 cup salted, cooking macadamia insane or blanched almonds
  • 6 thin pieces (the size of a quarter) clean galangal or clean ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 1 tablespoon salad oil
  • 2 1/2 quarts fat-skimmed chicken broth
  • 1 stalk (12 to 15 in.) fresh lemon grass or 3 strips (1/2 by 4 in.) orange peel, yellow aspect only
  • 1 1/2 pounds boned, skinned chicken breast, rinsed
  • 4 to 6 oz. dried vegetable line dinner (saifun)
  • Salt and pepper
  • 3 mugs finely shredded cabbage
  • 3 mugs vegetable seedlings, washed and drained
  • 1 cup very finely chopped onion, including tops
  • 1 cup chopped Roma tomatoes
  • 1 cup chopped clean cilantro
  • 4 hard-cooked large egg, shelled and cut into wedges
  • 2 mugs potato chips or shrimp chips (optional)
  • 1/2 cup fried shallots
  • Lime wedges
  • Chili sambal, Asian red chilli paste, or chopped clean hot chilies

Preparation :

  • In a blender, combine garlic, chopped shallots, macadamia nuts, galangal, and turmeric extract. Try combination to a insert, cotton wool swab container sides as needed. (Or chop ingredients with a knife, then whirl in a blender to a paste.)
  • In a 5- to 6-quart pan over great temperature, mix the paste and the oil until combination barely begins to brown, about 3 minutes. Stir in soup, protect, and carry to a steam.
  • Meanwhile, trim control end and any tough leaves off orange lawn and pull off coarse surface. Grind stalk with the back of a blade, then cut into 3-inch pieces. Add to soup.
  • Add chicken breast to soup. Cover, carry to a steam, then reduce warm to low and cook until the breast are no longer pink in center of thickest aspect (cut to test), 15 to 20 minutes. Raise out chicken and let cool at least 10 moments. Skim fat from soup. (Or if making ahead, protect and chill the soup and the chicken independently. Raise off and eliminate fat from the chilled soup.)
  • In a bowl, add 5 mugs hot water over vegetable line dinner. Let stand until the dinner are tender to bite, about 5 minutes; drain. If preferred, cut through dinner with scissors to make shorter strands.
  • Season soup with spice up and sodium to flavor. Return to a steam over great temperature.
  • Tear the chicken into shreds. In individual small containers, pile destroyed poultry, vegetable line dinner, clothes, vegetable seedlings, natural vegetables, tomato vegetables, cilantro, egg pitching sand wedges, snacks, fried shallots, calcium pitching sand wedges, and soup sambal. Pour hot soup into a tureen or pitcher.
  • Let guests place preferred portions of the chicken, dinner, clothes, vegetable seedlings, natural vegetables, tomato vegetables, cilantro, and egg in wide containers. Ladle or add hot soup into containers. Spread with snacks and fried shallots. Add juice from calcium pitching sand wedges, soup sambal, and more spice up and sodium to flavor.

1 comment:

  1. Hi,

    Need your permission to use your soto picture as my product picture....

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