Soto ayam

Soto ayam is a yellow spicy chicken soup with lontong or ketupat (all compressed rice that is then cut into small cakes) and/or vermicelli or noodles, commonly found in  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, Chinese celery leaves, and fried shallots. 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.
In this session, I share soto ayam recipe with very simple ingredients.

Ingredients:

chicken, boiled then shredded the meat

fresh cabbage

vermicelli

fine spices: garlic, shallot, turmeric, ginger, salt and nutmeg

lemongrass, lime leaves

instant chicken stock powder

celery, fine chopped

fried shallot

directions:

stir fry the fine spices until it smells good

add the spices into chicken boiled water

add lemongrass, lime leaves and instant chicken stock powder

add chopped fresh cabbage and shredded chicken meat

add vermicelli

cook until all ingredients is cooked

sprinkle with celery and fried shallot