Medan chicken soup (soto ayam Medan)

Recipe is borrowed from here.

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The following modifications are made to the recipe:
1. Boneless and skinless chicken breast is used instead of whole chicken.
2. Chicken is stir fried after boiling instead of deep fried.

The chicken taste better when deep fried for sure, but even without doing that, the recipe still taste great.

Ingredients (serve 6)
2 lbs chicken breast
1 bay leaf
1 tbsp ground lemon grass or 1 lemon grass
5 lime leaves
1/2" galangal
1 cup coconut milk
3 hard boiled eggs
6 cups bean sprout -> boil quickly before serving
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt -> 1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sweet soy sauce

Spices:
8 shallots
3 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tbsp ground coriander seed
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2" ginger
3 nutmeg

Garnish:
1 green onion
fried shallots

Nutritional information (per serving)

		PRO	FAT	CARB
chicken breast, 150 g		36g	2g	0g
hard boiled egg, 1/2		3g	3g	0g
bean sprout, 1 c		11g	0g	3g
coconut milk, 1/6 cup		0g	5g	0g
sweet soy sauce, 1/2 tsp		0g	0g	3g
TOTAL (314 cals)		50g	10g	6g

Cooking instruction
1. Put chicken and 4 cups of water in sauce pan and turn the heat to high. When the water boils, turn the heat to low, and put in bay leaf, lime leaves and galangal. Simmer for another 8 - 10 mins, put the chicken aside and leave the chicken broth on low heat.
2. Put all the spices in a blender, and ground them. Spray oil on frying pan and stir fry the ground spices for 1-2 minutes. Put the ground spices and salt and sweet soy sauce in the chicken broth and mix well.
3. Put the coconut milk into the chicken broth mix and stir every 10 minutes or so under low heat. Stirring under low heat is important, because otherwise the coconut milk won't mix well. Keep doing this for 1 hour.
3. Cut chicken into bite sizes, and mix well with soy sauce, then stir fry for 3-4 minutes.
4. On a bowl, put half hard boiled eggs, bean sprout and chicken. Garnish with green onion and fried shallots. Pour 1/6th of the broth mix on top of it. Enjoy!

Results





1st attempt:
This recipe taste amazing. Next time, I just have to do two things to make it taste a bit better. First, boil bean sprout lightly before serving, since the broth mix is not hot enough to cook it. Second, reduce salt slightly, taste is a little bit too salty for my liking.