Soto Ayam (Indonesian Style Chicken Soup)

This is my first time to post a recipe at here. Very easy to cook.

Here is the recipe (approximate 10 bowl, the cost not more than SGD 15)
Ingredients: 
- 1 Jumbo Chicken 1.7kg-2kgcut into 6 pcs
- 5 small size potato about 1/2 kg
- 2 medium size carrot about 300gr
- 4 medium size tomato
- 1 spring onion
- Local lime 200gr (can be substitute by lemon )
- Garlic 100gr
- Shallots 150gr
- Yellow ginger about 3cm
- 2 lemon grass
- Egg (optional)
- Chili (optional)

How to cook:
- Peel off potato, carrot, garlic, shallot, and yellow ginger.
- Dice potato and carrot, put aside

- Sliced spring onion and put aside

- Wash garlic, shallot and yellow ginger and blend it with water until smooth. Don't add too much water.

- Smashed lemon grass

- Heat the pot add 3 tbsp oil, fried the blended spice and spring onion until fragrance, add 2.5 ltr water and lemon grass. Boil it.(must use a big pot)

 - While the water is boiling, you can wash the chicken, boil the eggs, cut tomato and lime, and blend the chili with a bit water

- When the soup is boil, add carrots and chicken. Let it boil for 45 minutes.

- After 45 minutes, take out chicken meat, add potato and let it boil for another 15 minutes, add salt.
- Let the chicken meat drain out the water about 5 minutes and use a bit oil to fried till golden brown  ( I am using happy call hehehehe....) and shredded the chicken meat.

Finally all the ingredients is cooked.
Serving in a bowl, add chicken meat, tomato, egg, and soup with carrot and potato (make sure the soup is hot), crispy shallot (optional). Adding sweet soya sauce, chili, and lime juice is depend on individual taste.

The soup is go well with the rice :))