soto ayam
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Malay / indonesian:
soto ayam
Detailed etymology
definitions
noun
- a traditional spiced chicken soup originating from Indonesian cuisine. It has a characteristic yellowish colour due to the use of turmeric as a key ingredient. Other ingredients may include hard-boiled eggs, fried shallots, lontong, etc.
The heart of every mee soto dish is the soto ayam (chicken broth). The broth is made from chicken cooked with rempah (spice paste).
— 2013 June 11, Bonny Tan. NLB - Singapore Infopedia, "Mee soto". https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=6e19ef08-a988-45f5-85b4-f779e5d7117b
usage notes
It is essentially the soup base used in mee soto, but some may make the distinction that soto ayam uses compressed rice (lontong) or rice noodles rather than yellow noodles (though this is not always the case, and soto ayam may not always come with noodles at all).