Saoto soup is a delicious soup from the Surinamese kitchen. Surinamese cuisine is a mix of Javanese, Hindustani, Creole, Chinese, Dutch, Jewish and Portuguese cuisine, creating a unique mix of delicious recipes. Saoto soup is originally a Javanese dish which is delicious both for lunch and dinner. Below is the recipe for a simple Surinamese saoto soup with two types of sambals.
Ingredients Saoto soup
2 liters of water
1 pound of chicken breast
3 chicken bones (for the stock)
1 large piece of galangal (5 cm)
1 small piece of ginger (3 cm)
1 1/2 stalk sereh (lemon grass)
6 5alam leaves
6 allspice grains (lontai)
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 pack saoto mix
200 gr. bean sprouts
4 sprigs of celery
Aromat to taste
Ingredients sambals
5 Madame Jeanet peppers
3 cloves of garlic
Sweet soy sauce
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1/ 2 tablespoons salt
Preparation Saoto
Bring water to a boil with chicken breast and chicken bones. Remove the chicken breast after half an hour or when it is cooked. Place the galangal, ginger, lemongrass, salam leaves and pigment granules in the pan. Let cook for 1 hour. Add the peeled onion and garlic cloves to the pan and cook for another half hour. Finish the saoto soup to taste with aromat. Cut the chicken breast into small pieces. Cut the celery into small pieces.
Preparation pepper sambal and soy sauce sambal
Finely chop the garlic and Madame Jeanet peppers in a food chopper. Divide into 2 small bowls (1/3 in the bowl for the soy sauce sambal and 2/3 in the bowl for the pepper sambal. Add vinegar, sugar and some salt to the pepper sambal and mix. Put the soy sauce with the soy sauce sambal and possibly some salt if it is too sweet.
This is how you serve the soup
You put this in the soup bowl: the saoto mix (fill the soup bowl 1/3 with it), 2 tablespoons bean sprouts, sliced chicken breast (desired amount) and the sliced celery. Add the hot broth. And add both sambals to taste. Enjoy your meal!
Hint: Saoto soup can optionally be served with 1 hard-boiled egg and rice.
The ingredients are for sale in the Toko, but most also at the Jumbo.
