Soto Ayam (traditional chicken soup) for our stay at home dinner

Hello, everyone. It's another day of the stay home day for us. And today we coook a typicla Indonesian soup called soto ayam or chicken soup. Different places in Indonesia may have different variety of taste, so what we cook could be different with any soto ayam from different area in Indonesia.

We went to a local shop near our house to buy the ingredients we need. All the ingredients are as follows:

For marinating the chicken and chicken broth ingredients:

• turmeric
• macademian nuts
• garlic
• two spoons of palm oil for frying
• salt
• sugar

We just used an electric blender to mix all these ingredients. When they are blended well, we fry this with palm oil. We added some water, bay leaves, and cut lemon grass. Finally we put in the chicken meat to mix with all ingredients while stirring continuously.

When the chicken is about half cooked, we take out the chicken from the frying pan and we put everything into hot water which was still boiling on our stove. So, now we cook or boiled the chicken on a pan instead of the frying pan.

After about 15 minutes, we took out the chicken meat and fried them in palm oil. We waited until its color turn brown before we take it out from the frying pan. Next, we punched the chicken meat with the stone of pestle and mortar to make it easier to shred the meat.

On the mean time, we also prepared few other things.

We sliced some shallot and fry them in palm oil. We cut some leeks and cabbages into thin pieces (see photo) and boiled some noodles and eggs. And All ingredients were ready.

How do we serve this soto ayam? Well, we mixed all ingredients in a bowl and shimmered it with the chicken broth we had earlier. We add noodles, sliced leeks and cabages, fried shallot, and then boiled egg in one bowl. Next, we put some of the chicken broth. If you like it spice, you can add chili.

That's our dinner in another stay at home day. Thanks for reading.