Indonesian Soto Ayam - Soto Ayam Madura

I have seen so many German websites explaining what soto ayam is and the recipe it self. It's really impressed me because Indonesian food is quite rare here compared to Vietnamese or Thai food. There are some variant recipes of soto ayam in Indonesia. Each region has its own characteristics, for example, Soto Betawi, they use beef shank, Soto Kudus, without coconut milk, Soto Bandung looks more white than yellow, etc.

This time I would like to share the recipe of Soto Madura but I will use chicken breast instead of beef offal.

Indonesian Recipe

Prep time: 10 mins - Cook time: 2 hours - Serves: 8

Broth

• 1.5 kg chicken breast

• 2 Lt Water

Grinded spices

• 1 spring onion

• 4 cloves garlic

• 6 shallots

• 2.5 cm ginger

• 2 cm fresh turmeric, or 1 tsp ground turmeric

• 1 tsp fresh white pepper, or ground white pepper

And

• 4 lime leaves

• 2 bay-leaf

• 2 stalk lemongrass, crushed

• 3 tbsp vegetable oil

• 150ml coconut milk

• 2 tsp salt

• 1 tsp sugar

Accompaniments

• Steamed rice

• 100 gr rise vermiceli noodles, soaked in hot water to soften

• 4 hard-boiled eggs, cut into 4 pieces

• chrispy fried potato

• 50 gr fresh bean sprouts

• 1 bunch celery leaves

• 1/2 cup chrispy fried shallots

• 1/2 cup finely chopped green onions

• 2 lime cut into 4 pieces

• 2 tomatos cut 1 cm

• sweet soy sauce

• sambal

• Kerupuk, or fish craker

Method

The first step, boiled chicken until it becomes 1.5 liters broth.

After generating the broth, remove the chicken and fry with 3 tablespoons oil. Once browned, remove and drain. Wait to be cool, then shredded chicken thinly and set aside.

Sauté the special paste, add lemon grass, lime leaves and bay leaf until fragrant. Then mix into the chicken broth, add sugar and salt. Add coconut milk, stirring gently. Reduce the heat, taste for seasoning. Turn off the stove.

Serving Method:

Arrange accompaniments in serving bowl / Add accompaniments of your choice to your soup bowl and ladle broth and chicken over. Add a little sweet soy sauce about 1 tsp.

Garnish with fried shallots, and a squeeze of lime.