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.