Soto Ayam

MY THOUGHTS

My second daughter requested for Soto Ayam, a dish which I don't quite like. Thus, to cook it is something which is not possible as I do not know how it should be tasted like. Still, remembering an Ustaz's advice, fulfilling someone's wish especially your own child is something the parent need to do while the child is healthy. Often, the Ustaz reminds that parents only try to fulfill the child's wish is when the child is really sick and then later, when the child is no longer around, the parents start to regret.


THE RECIPE 

Pot - medium sized metal pot.
Chicken (If you do not wish to boil the whole chicken, choose the part with a lot of flesh. Boil the chicken.
              Once the chicken is cooked, take it out and tear out the cooked flesh into small strips.)
Ginger (slightly bigger than my thumb. Peel off the skin and bruise it. Put it into the chicken broth.)
Lemon grass ( I used two. Clean and then have it bruised.)
To be pounded: (to be added into the chicken broth)
- Jintan manis (1/2 tablespoon)
- Jintan putih (1/2 tablespoon)
- Ketumbar (1 tablespoon)
- galangle (slightly smaller than my thumb. Preferably, it should be getting the same treatment as the ginger but as mine has been sliced and dried, I decided to pulverize it.)
Salt
Black Pepper (1 teaspoon - pounded)
White pepper (quite a lot of dashes)

The sauce:
Chilli Padi ( about ten)
Garlic (about 6 cloves. Blend the two items but instead of adding water, replace it with soya sauce. Then
           pour the blended items into a pot and have it boil.)

Begedil (an essential item when having Soto.)
MInce meat (one cereal bowl)
Potatoes (about 6 large ones. Cut them up like oranges and then fry them. Later, you mashed them up. This
                is followed by adding in the mince meat.)
Fried Onions (Put in about 2 1/2 tablespoon of it into the mixture(
2 eggs
White pepper
salt
Flour (1 ladle scoop of it)
**mix all the ingredients well. Then make balls out of the mixture and deep fry them. Make sure the oil is hot before putting them in.)

Serving:
The soup
Garnishes (stripped chicken, sliced spring onions, blenched beansprouts, compressed rice.)

POINT TO PONDER

As a muslim, are we expected to tolerate with every rubbish that people throw upon us? Ideally, I suppose so but, at times, you just cannot take the bull-shit (excuse the language). Just to please the boss, we simply put down a figure and hoping that our boss will be impressed.

           I could still remember SIGS late headmistress used to say 'If you wish to do something, do it well or else don't do it at all.' However, this is not the case nowadays. Figure first, the action comes later. If people remember, we do it. If our boss forget, we should forget.