KUDUS CHICKEN CLEAR SOUP, SOTO KUDUS

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Kudus chicken clear soup is a kind of dish from Kudus, the little town of Central Java. This chicken soup has an unique taste due to the seasonings are used quite a lot of garlic. You are interested in a taste, you can try to make it yourself. This is the recipe.

INGREDIENTS :

• 1 chicken (free range chicken), wash off, cut into four parts
• 500 grams bean sprouts, boiled half done
• ¼ cabbage, chopped finely
• 5 cloves garlic, sliced and fried
• 4 stalks celery, sliced finely
• 1 ½ tsp salt (or to taste)
• 1 tsp sugar

• 3 Kaffir lime leaves
• sweet ketchup to taste
• 4 lime fruits, each one cut in four
• 3 lt of water, to boil chicken
• 3 tbsp cooking oil for sauteing

OPTION :
• 8 chicken eggs, boiled until done (10 minutes)
• 2 ounces glass noodles, soaked for 10 minutes of warm water and drained
• white rice to taste

GROUND SEASONING :
• 10 candlenuts
• 10 cloves garlic
• 1 / 4 nutmeg
• 2 tsp pepper
• 2 tsp coriander
• 6 red onions
• ½ tsp cumin
• 2 cm of turmeric

CHILI-GARLIC SAUCE :
• 1 ounce chili pepper
• 5 cloves garlic
• salt to taste

METHOD :
1) Use a mortal and pestle or food processor, grind all ground seasoning ingredients finely.
2) Boil the chicken with 3 lt of water until soft and fragrant. Removed, drain, set aside. Set aside all broth.
3) Preheat cooking oil, saute the ground seasoning until fragrant.
4) Put seasoning sauce into the broth (point 1). Add a little fried garlic, salt, kaffir lime leaves and sugar to taste. Reduce heat to low, simmer on the broth.
5) Fry the boild chicken until dry (light brown), and then shredded.
6) Now, Soto Kudus ready to serve.

How to make a chili-garlic sauce:
1. Boil all the ingredients, drain and ground.
2. Preheat a little cooking oil, saute materials that have been ground with salt to
taste.

HOW TO SERVE :
1. Prepare a bowl, put boiled bean sprouts (half-done), sliced cabbage, shredded fried chicken. Pour with soup gravy, a little fried garlic and sliced celery.
2. Add lime juice, chili-garlic sauce and sweet kechup to taste.
3. You can add white rice or glass noodles and a half of boiled chiken egg.

Happy cooking. Thank you very much.

KUDUS CHICKEN CLEAR SOUP, SOTO KUDUS

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1.

Kudus chicken clear soup is a kind of dish from Kudus, the little town of Central Java. This chicken soup has an unique taste due to the seasonings are used quite a lot of garlic. You are interested in a taste, you can try to make it yourself. This is the recipe.

INGREDIENTS :

• 1 chicken (free range chicken), wash off, cut into four parts
• 500 grams bean sprouts, boiled half done
• ¼ cabbage, chopped finely
• 5 cloves garlic, sliced and fried
• 4 stalks celery, sliced finely
• 1 ½ tsp salt (or to taste)
• 1 tsp sugar

• 3 Kaffir lime leaves
• sweet ketchup to taste
• 4 lime fruits, each one cut in four
• 3 lt of water, to boil chicken
• 3 tbsp cooking oil for sauteing

OPTION :
• 8 chicken eggs, boiled until done (10 minutes)
• 2 ounces glass noodles, soaked for 10 minutes of warm water and drained
• white rice to taste

GROUND SEASONING :
• 10 candlenuts
• 10 cloves garlic
• 1 / 4 nutmeg
• 2 tsp pepper
• 2 tsp coriander
• 6 red onions
• ½ tsp cumin
• 2 cm of turmeric

CHILI-GARLIC SAUCE :
• 1 ounce chili pepper
• 5 cloves garlic
• salt to taste

METHOD :
1) Use a mortal and pestle or food processor, grind all ground seasoning ingredients finely.
2) Boil the chicken with 3 lt of water until soft and fragrant. Removed, drain, set aside. Set aside all broth.
3) Preheat cooking oil, saute the ground seasoning until fragrant.
4) Put seasoning sauce into the broth (point 1). Add a little fried garlic, salt, kaffir lime leaves and sugar to taste. Reduce heat to low, simmer on the broth.
5) Fry the boild chicken until dry (light brown), and then shredded.
6) Now, Soto Kudus ready to serve.

How to make a chili-garlic sauce:
1. Boil all the ingredients, drain and ground.
2. Preheat a little cooking oil, saute materials that have been ground with salt to
taste.

HOW TO SERVE :
1. Prepare a bowl, put boiled bean sprouts (half-done), sliced cabbage, shredded fried chicken. Pour with soup gravy, a little fried garlic and sliced celery.
2. Add lime juice, chili-garlic sauce and sweet kechup to taste.
3. You can add white rice or glass noodles and a half of boiled chiken egg.

Happy cooking. Thank you very much.

MANADO RICA-RICA BEEF

Rica-rica beef is one of speciality food of Manado, North Sulawesi. This food made of beef with special seasoning, red curly chilies, garlic, red onion (allium cepa, latin), galangal root, ginger root, coconut milk etc.. If you decided to try to make and taste it, here you are your recipe.

INGREDIENTS :

· 500 gr beef, wash off and sliced rectangular with tick + ½ cm

· 250 coconut milk, made of ¼ coconut fruit

· 3 tbs cooking oil, for saute

GROUND SEASONING :
• 20 red curly chilies
• 4 cloves of garlic, peel and chopped
• 6 cloves of onion, peel and chopped
• 2 cm alpina galangal root, peeled and grated it
• 2 cm ginger root, peeled and grated it
• ¾ tsp sea salt (or to taste)
• ¼ tsp broth powder (if you like it, option)
ANOTHER SEASONING :
• 2 stalks lemongrass, bruised
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tomato, cut in 8 pieces
METHOD :
1. Use mortal and pestel or food prosessor, grind all ground seasoning ingredients finely.
2. Preheat 3 tbsp cooking oil, saute ground seasoning until becames fragrant, add lemongrass and bay leaf, saute on until becames fragrant.
3. Put the sliced beef and sliced tomatoes into saute, stir frequently the beef becames half-cook.
4. Pour coconut milk, stir cotinously and cook on until the tender and its saute used up.
5. Removed. And, beef tica-rica ready to serve. Happy cooking.
Thank you very much.

MANADO RICA-RICA BEEF

Rica-rica beef is one of speciality food of Manado, North Sulawesi. This food made of beef with special seasoning, red curly chilies, garlic, red onion (allium cepa, latin), galangal root, ginger root, coconut milk etc.. If you decided to try to make and taste it, here you are your recipe.

INGREDIENTS :

· 500 gr beef, wash off and sliced rectangular with tick + ½ cm

· 250 coconut milk, made of ¼ coconut fruit

· 3 tbs cooking oil, for saute

GROUND SEASONING :
• 20 red curly chilies
• 4 cloves of garlic, peel and chopped
• 6 cloves of onion, peel and chopped
• 2 cm alpina galangal root, peeled and grated it
• 2 cm ginger root, peeled and grated it
• ¾ tsp sea salt (or to taste)
• ¼ tsp broth powder (if you like it, option)
ANOTHER SEASONING :
• 2 stalks lemongrass, bruised
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tomato, cut in 8 pieces
METHOD :
1. Use mortal and pestel or food prosessor, grind all ground seasoning ingredients finely.
2. Preheat 3 tbsp cooking oil, saute ground seasoning until becames fragrant, add lemongrass and bay leaf, saute on until becames fragrant.
3. Put the sliced beef and sliced tomatoes into saute, stir frequently the beef becames half-cook.
4. Pour coconut milk, stir cotinously and cook on until the tender and its saute used up.
5. Removed. And, beef tica-rica ready to serve. Happy cooking.
Thank you very much.

BEEF CLEAR SOUP/BANDUNG BEEF CLEAR SOUP

Bandung beef clear soup (Soto Bandung- Ind.) is the special beef clear soup from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It is a special Sundanese delicious dish. It is made of beef, radish, white pepper etc. You can try to make it yourself and taste it.
How to make it ? Here you are.

INGREDIENTS :
• 250 gr piece of fresh beef, washed off
• 1 radish, peeled and sliced thinly, boiled, drained
• 75 gr soybeen, submerged in hot water about 20 minuts, drained and fried.
• 2 lt of freshwater

Seasoning :
• 4 cloves of garlic, peeled and pulverized
• ¼ tsp ground white pepper
• 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised
• 3 cm ginger root, peeled and bruised
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 stalk welsh’onion, thinly sliced
• 2 stalks celery, thinly sliced
• 1 tsp salt (sea salt) or to taste

METHOD :

1. In stewpan or saucepan, boil fresh beef together with lemongrass,ginger and bay leaves untill tender, removed and drained. And than cut into small cubes, set aside.
2. Simmer the remained broth ( point 1), add pulverized garlic,ground white pepper, and sea salt, stir it frequently.
3. Add the diced beef (point 1) and the thinly sliced boiled radish intothat simmered broth, reduce heat to very low.
   

Now, Bandung Beef Soup (Soto Bandung) ready to be served.
Serve it with sprinkle fried soybeen, thinly sliced welsh’onion,
thinly sliced celery, and ground white pepper (option, if you need to add it).

TIPS :
If you like a hot taste, you can add chilies sauce, season to taste, in your soup. And, usually, we eat Bandung Beef Clear Soup with emping and steam white rice. Emping is a fried chip made of tangkil fruit (Sundanese), (melinjo fruit , Javanese or gnetum gnemon, latin).
Happy cooking. Thank you very much.