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.

Tom Yum Soup

Join again "Masak Bareng" January 2009 Edition...what we cook together today? hmmm something sour, hot yet warm up your day. The food come from Thailand serve as an opening. With fresh prawn, squid, scallops, clam or fish (whatever you want) inside this soup is worth enough to try. Actually, since I live here, in France I often make this soup. We found instant paste in a bottle and the frozen ingredients at Asia Market while the seafood available freshly at the market or supermarket. Plus, it's very easy to make. ok, let's go to the kitchen :)


Tom Yum Soup (for 3 person)
Ingredients :
1 ltr water
2 full tbsp instant tom yum paste
3 red chili, minced
2 lemon gras
5 citron leaves
2 cm galangal
150 gr prawns
150 gr scallops
salt
you may add with : fish fillet,squid,clam (mine, i skipped because my husband couldn't eat those)

Directions :
- boil the water
- stir in the paste and the other ingredients,let it boiling
- then add the prawn and scallops, season with salt. cook until the prawn and the scallops done
- serve while hot.