Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Indonesian Chicken Soup with Herbs

This is one of my favorite dishes and as the soup contains so many Herbs, I call it " Flu Remedy " or Hangover Remedy...LOL. I have been cooking this many times already as London weather is perfect for hot soup.

The soup is really healthy. The recipe basically can be cooked with meat such as spare ribs, chicken or lamb.  Though the way my mom made it is somehow quite different from what I have Googled.  Well, people have their own technique but I found this one is sooo freshening and taste so delicious!!



Here it is... my favorite soup recipe... Sup Ayam

Serve : 6 portion 

My favourite thing about cooking this soup is once the herbs added in boiled water at the end you put the Garlic and onion oil which infuses chicken broth with deep aroma of fried garlic





Ingredients : 

1 whole chicken ( in pic i used 8 thighs ) 
1/2 cabbage ( cut according your choice ) 
1 big carrot rounded thinly sliced 
3 spring onions trimmed and cut into small pieces for garnish 
fried onion as garnish 
1/2 teaspoon chicken stock powder 

Bumbu
5  Garlic cloves finely chopped 
1 big shallot,finely chopped 
2 tbsp vegetable oil 

4 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
8cm ginger crushed 
1 tbsp ground pepper (its best if you can crush the pepper on the mortar as it gives more fresh taste) 
1 nutmeg crushed 


Method :

- Cut the whole chicken according to your preference 
- Boil approx 2 litres of water and add chicken, cook for about 10 minutes. Take out the chicken and discard the boiled water. 
- Boil another 2 litres of water, add chicken again
- Add all the herbs ( clove, cinammon, ginger, pepper, nutmeg. 
- Add carrot and lastly add cabbage to give fresh vegetable crunchy and keep vitamins when you eat it 
- Add salt to taste and white pepper(approx 1 tbsp ) 
- Add chicken stock powder 
- turn down the heat to low 
- while waiting for soup, prepare vegetable oil on the hot pan then add garlic and shallots and fry  until brown and gives an aromatic smell. 
- add to soup

To serve : 
Add soup to soup bowl, garnish it with spring onion and fried onion. 






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