Indonesian Food Recipes

Soto is an Indonesian soup mainly composed of broth, meat and vegetables. There are countless of soto variants from different parts of the country and made of different ingredients: soto betawi, soto bandung, soto ambengan, soto banyumas, soto madura just to name a few.? Soto kudus is one of the most popular versions, typically made of chicken or water buffalo meat (The traditional people of Kudus don’t eat beef as it is considered a taboo).? This is the chicken version of Soto Kudus.

Serve: 8-10

Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken
• 4 hard boiled egg, halved
• 1 cup bean sprouts with the roots removed, soaked in hot water and drained
• 100 gr vermicelli, soaked in hot water and drained
• 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised
• 3 tbs parsley, minced
• 2 cm ginger, bruised
• 2 tbs vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup fried shallots
• 1 liter water

Spice paste ingredients:

• 5 shallots, thinly sliced
• 5 cloves garlic
• 1 tbs coriander seeds
• 1 tsp black/white pepper
• 6 candle nuts
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1 cm turmeric
• salt to taste

Directions:

• Grind spice paste ingredients in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle into a fine paste.
• With vegetable oil, saute shallots in a wok or frying pan until yellow. Add spice paste, lemongrass and ginger. Continue stir frying until fragrant. Remove.
• Heat water in a big pan, bring to the boil.? Add chicken. Simmer until the chicken is tender.
• Remove chicken from the pan and drain. Remove the bones and cut into bit-sized slices.
• Add spice paste mixture to the broth. Stir to combine. Continue simmering on low heat.
• To serve one serving:
  • Put 3 tbs sliced of chicken, 1 tbs bean sprouts, 1/4 cup vermicelli,? one half of boiled egg in a bowl.
  • Pour the seasoned chicken broth
  • Sprinkle with parsley and fried shallots
  • Add sambal if you want it hot.