SOTO AYAM

Soto Ayam noodle is my children favourite,they like to add lot of sauce into the bowl of noodle.
Usually I cooked a big pot of the soup,when they are hungry ,they heat up the soup,add in all the ingredients.

SOTO AYAM

Ingredients;

1 chicken (about 1.5 kg)
500g bean sprouts
2 stalks spring onion
2 stalk chinese celery
150g shallots
12 bowls water
2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp sugar
some cooking oil

Soup ingredients;
15g ginger
2 stalk lemongrass
150g shallots
5 cloves
3 cardamon
1 star anise
1/2 tbsp pepper

Method;
1.Rinse chicken and set aside.Pluck off roots from the bean sprouts then blanch.Rinse spring onion and chinese celery and dice.Slice shallot (from ingredients) and deep fry till fragrant.Grind ginger,lemongrass and shallots (from soup ingredients) together.

2.Bring water to a boil,add chicken and cook forabout 30 min or chicken till cooked and remove.
when chicken is cooled,shred chicken and set aside.Return chicken bones into the soup and continue to cook for a while,off heat.

3.heat up cooking oil and saute soup ingredients till fragrant.Pour in the chicken soup and cookover low heat for about half an hour till aromatic.Filter the soup and season it with salt and sugar.

4.Place bean sprouts and shredded chicken into a bowl,scatter spring onion,chinese celery and fried shallots on top then pour in chicken soup.serve.

NOTES; you can add compressed rice cakes (lontong) or yellow noodles tothis dish.

SAUCE:
1/2 cup cili padi ,4 shallot peeled ,3 garlic  peeled and blended together into paste, add in 1/2 cup kicap manis and 1 tbsp sugar mix well combined