Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Soup)

I was happy when I served this special soup from Indonesia for lunch with my Japanese friend, Kazzie, a couple months ago. she was very excited and liked it. then I promised her to post the recipe. I am really sorry, it took so long until now I write the recipe. Dear Kazzie, bon courage! tu peux essayer maintenant.

Indonesian Chicken Soup (Chicken Soto/Soto Ayam)
for 3-4 servings
Ingredients :
4 pieces of chickens (any part, with bones), bring to boil and shimmer with 1,5-2 l water
rice cake/rice
vermicelli, soak in hot water
bean sprout, blanch in hot water
cabbage, slice thinly, blanch in hot water
onion spring, chopped
fried shallots
prawn snack

paste ingredients :
5 shallots
3 garlic
2 cm fresh ginger (powder - 1/2 tsp)
1 cm fresh turmeric (powder : 1/2 tsp
additional ingredients :
4 kafir leaves
2 lemongrass, crushed
2 cm galangal,crushed

salt
sugar

direction :
1. bring to boil and then keep cook at medium heat the chicken
2. saute until fragrant the paste ingredients and additional ingredients
3. then stir into chicken broth,cook until boil, season with salt and sugar as you wish
4. take the chicken and cut thinly
5. prepare in a bowl : rice cake,vermicelli,cabbage,bean sprout,onion spring,chicken.
6. pour the soup into the bowl, sprinkle with fried shallots and prawn snack.
7. if you like, eat with chili paste (chili, bring to boil, drained and crushed to bits. add with few of chicken soup)
8. serve while hot/warm
optional : add some boiled eggs, cut half.

Ayam Pop (a Chicken Dish)

Speak frankly, I really don't know what is the exact translation for Ayam Pop in English. Ayam means Chicken and Pop, mmm, usually we know Pop as one of music genre. maybe they name it Pop because this chicked dish very popular in Indonesia specially from West Sumatra as pop music :))

Maybe if I am not living far far away from my country, I never cooked the dish. Anytime you want it, just go to Padang Restaurant and order, sit, then eat it. so simple...But here, in Cannes, impossible! Make it your own that's the solution. Ok, why not...it was not so difficult, trust me...yet it's delicious!

Ayam Pop
source : Dapur Mlandhing

Ingredients :
4 chicken drum stick
1 lt coconut water
2 tablespoon butter/margarine
oil for frying

Paste ingredients :
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
3 cm of fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon coriander
3 bay leaves
2 kafir leaves
1 lemongrass, crushed
1 teaspoon salt

chicken broth in cube, optional

Method :

Clean the chicken from its skin

Prepare big casserole, put the chicken and all the ingredients. Add in coconut water and butter/margarine. Close the casserole, bring to boil the chicken and keep cooking until well done.

Fry the chicken, you don't have to fry it until dried. Just a couple minutes (more or less 3 min). Absorb the oil, and serve it.

TIPS :

you may use chicken breast to subtitute.