Indonesia Chicken Soup Recipe

Soto or soup is popular street food in Indonesia. People usually eat soup (chicken or cow soup) as breakfast. Soto usually serves with rice inside. There are a lot of recipe style of this soup. It depend from origin area, such as betawi soup fronm Jakarta, Lamongan soup from Lamongan (city in East Java Province), and others.

Here the chicken soup recipe for you all, try it to taste Indonesian soup style.


Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken
• 5 stalks green onions, finely sliced
• 2 Tbs. sweet soy sauce
• 1 tsp. vinegar
• vegetable oil
• 100 gram flour
• 150 ml water
• 200 gram beansprouts
• 150 gram crisp-fried potato chips
• 100 gram cellophane noodles, soaked briefly in hot water until softened and drained
• 5 hard-boiled eggs, quartered
• 2 Tbs. fried shallots
• 3 stalks flat-leaved parsley, finely sliced
• Spice Paste Ingredients:
• 4 cm fresh ginger
• 10 small cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp. ground pepper
• salt to taste

Instructions:

• Put the chicken in a large pot cover with water and using medium high heat, bring the it to a boil and until tender. Set aside 2 liter of the chicken broth.
• Bone the chicken and slice in 1x2 cm shreds. Stir-fry the chicken until it's golden yellow and set aside.
• Fry the spice paste until fragrant with 1 Tbs. vegetable oil. Add it to the stock and heat the stock to boiling.
• Add the sliced spring onions, sweet soy sauce and vinegar. Stir well.
• Adjust the seasoning and simmer for a few minutes.
• To make the beansprout fritters, mix the flour, water and salt and then add the beansprouts. Drop a heaped tablespoonful of the mixture into hot oil and fry to a golden yellow color. Remove and set aside.
• To serve: Arrange the beansprout fritters, fried potato chips, cellophane noodles, hard-boiled eggs in a deep soup plate. Sprinkle fried shalots and parsley on top. Laddle the seasoned broth into the soup plate. This should be served very hot. For hot-flavor lovers, provide a side-dish of traditional Indonesia chili sauce.

Makes 8-10 servings.

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Cooked Rice Omelet Recipe

For Indonesian, cooked rice is main food, but if you have never eat cooked rice before and still doubt about rice taste, you can make this menu to initialize your tongue for rice taste. This recipe called as rice omelet; yes you are right, just like usual omelet but rice added.

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 50 ml fresh milk
• 300 g of cooked rice
• 50 g of green paprika, sliced
• 10 g of Bombay onion, sliced
• 50 g of shrimps, chopped in small pieces, sautéing
• 1 spoon of vegetables oil

Condiments:

• 1 spoon of salty soy sauce
• ½ tea spoon of pepper powder
• 1 tea spoon of salt

How to make it?

• shake eggs and milk along with condiments above until mixed
• Put in it cooked rice, paprika, Bombay onion, and fried shrimp. Stir until mixed.
• Heat the wok, put on vegetables oil on it.
• Pour dough/batter and stir it. Close the wok. Cook until the bottom rather dry.
• Lift and make top side become bottom so every side cooked.
• After cooked, serve in heat and eat it.

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Sugar Palm’s or Sago Maggot Cuisine

Here’s unique Indonesia Food, a maggot. Yes, a maggot! Have you ate maggot or larva? Don’t feel repugnant, this maggot is so delicious. This maggot is from dead sugar palm or sago palm.

These maggots become unique food cuisine from Asmat ethnic of Papua, North Sulawesi, and also Karo Ethnic of North Sumatra.

How is the maggot appearance? The length about 4 centimeters, with one centimeters diameter, fat, white, and sexy :).

After cleaned, this maggot is frying until the outer part crunchy, but not till smashed so liquid inside still intact. Afterwards, fried maggots cooking a while in cooked gravy. This gravy contains of spices, like turmeric, walnut, shallots, garlic.

The taste? Hm…really yummy, it’s so delicious. The outer part is crunchy; the inside smashed and has a taste like marrow. The eyes part gave special sensation when eaten. There is thick liquid, crispy and soft taste, like cow marrow.

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Spicy Shrimp Satay (Sate)- Indonesia Food Recipes

Sate or Satay or Satay, for this original food from Indonesia, now I write the recipes for you hope you’ll like it and enjoyed. Browse this blog to get more info about sate.

Ingredient:
Serves 10
30 big head shrimp
2 lemon juice
20 shallots
5 gloves garlic
10 red chilies
2 sliced ginger
4 sliced turmeric
4 lemon leaves
4 tbsp ketchup and tomato sauce
Salt and sugar
Skewers
Preparation:
1.Cover the shrimp with lemon juice and salt. Put it away in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Stick the shrimp with the skewer.
2.Ground all the ingredients then stir fry in oil until it is aromatized. Add in the shrimp with the skewers. Stir for a while until it turns color.
3. Grill / Burn the shrimp until it is cooked.

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Layer Cakes Recipes, Rice Flour Indonesia Cakes

Just look at the image, you’ll see cakes in layers form. This Indonesia cakes has been my favorite cakes since child. I usually eat it with peel one by one of the layer. So tasty. Here the cakes recipe:

Ingredient :

Serves 20

1 litter coconut milk

salt

3 pandan leafs

270 gram rice flour

100 gram corn starch

300 gram granulated sugar

Food color red and green

Preparation :

1. Cook coconut milk with salt and pandan leaf. After it boiled, take out and let it cool.
2. Mix rice flour, corn starch, and granulated sugar. Pour coconut milk little by little while stir continuously.
3. Split the dough into 3 parts. Leave the first part without color. The other colored into red and green.
4. Take out a tray size 18 cm. layer with plastic and cover with oil. Pour the white dough on the base of the tray and stem for 10 minutes.
5. Pour the red dough and stem for 10 minutes, and so on with the green dough and the rest of the dough.

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Fried Bean Sprouts Food Cuisine

You can find bean sprouts as additional ingredients in many Indonesia food cuisines. But, in Bogor, West Java, there is cuisine that uses bean sprouts as main ingredients. That is Fried bean Sprouts.

Usually, this menu added with green onion leaves, oncom (fermented cake made from soybean sediment), noodle, and soybean. Its easy to cook. Because the secret of its delicious come from the sauce and hot sauce.

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Fried Rice Specials

Hmm.. Rice is the most common food in here, and also it's a must. You can't say you have eaten if you haven't eat rice. And that's why there's so many variations in cooking rice.

Like I've been eaten this afternoon. It's called Nasi Goreng Spesial ( Fried Rice Specials ). And what's making it so special? Because it's too many topping in there.

First it consist cornet beef, meat ball, scrambled egg, flour chips, tomato, cucumbar, chili, and the most important thing is of course the rice itself.

Anyway, the most important thing for cooking rice is the way you cooked it. Different cook will give different taste. And that's why I never can made a delicious fried rice, I'm not expert on this stuff. In Bandung I found the most tastefully fried rice. You can try it sometime with only Rp 8000.

Wanna try some? Come and join me.. :D

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Indonesia Recipe Manado Porridge

In this post, I wrote about Manado Porridge, famous Indonesian cuisine from Sulawesi. Here the full recipe about it. Enjoy, and happy cook time! :).

Ingredients:

• 250 gr of long grain rice
• 2 ears of corn, kernels stripped from the cobs
• salt to taste
• water
• 5 long string beans
• ½ cup spinach leaves
• ½ cup kangkung leaves (water convolvulus)
• 200 gram pumpkin, cut in 2 x 2 cm pieces of 1 cm thickness
• 20 kemangi (Horappa basil) leaves

Instructions:

• Boil the rice together with the corn kernels and the salt in enough water to cover rice to a depth of 6 cm
• After the water comes to a boil, add the long beans, cut in 5 cm lengths. Cook until the rice is half done; add the spinach leaves, the kangkung, the pumpkin, and the basil. Simmer tightly covered, until rice is done. Remove.
• Serve with tomato sambal and fried salted fish.

Tomato Hot Sauce

• Mix finely sliced red chilies, bird's eye chilies, shallots and tomatoes together. Ass salt and stir until everything is well-blended.

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CHICKEN RICE PORRIDGE, BEST BREAKFAST CHOICE

In Europe and other west countries, the people usually eat cereal in the morning. In Indonesia, chicken rice porridge becomes best breakfast choice. Why? First, for Indonesian, there is no eating without rice. Even they have eaten bread, for Indonesian it did not feel that the have ate. Rice porridge has rice composition.

Two, morning is rush hour for us, so we have to hurry. Porridge cuisine easy to eat and used up. So, what ideal cuisine for you?

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Durian Ice Fermented

Do you understand what durian is? Durian is somekind of fruit that only grow in Southeast Asian area including Indonesia. That's why we can always eat it and you don't. Please read durian in Wikipedia if you still don't get what I talking about.

It taste really good, but be careful it can be really bad if you eat it a lot. It will turns you madly, well hey I'm really serious in here. My friends eats more than 1 Kg of durian and he puke after that in the closet. Doesn't it sound really bad? Well no... It depends how you eat it. Actually durian sometimes referred to the fruit from heaven. This is the most expensive fruit in Southeast Asia because it has crop season at it's own and you can't eat it all the time you wanted to.

But when the time is come to crop season the durians will all over the market and you can eat lots of it until you get drunk because of it.

Making Durian Ice is so easy. Just put some ice, milk, sugar, and put it at refrigerator for 3 days. It will make the durian fermented and make the taste will even better.

You can see the picture, how it looks good isn't it? :D

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