''Soto mie'', ''Soto mi'', or ''Mee soto'' is a spicy Indonesian

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dish commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. ''Mie'' means

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made of flour, salt and egg, while '' soto'' refers to Indonesian soup. In Indonesia, it is called ''soto mie'' and is considered one variant of '' soto'', while in

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and

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it is called ''mee soto''.

Ingredients

''Soto mie'' can be made of beef, chicken, or

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s such as ''kaki sapi'' (skin, cartilage and tendons of cow's trotters) or

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s. People may exchange noodles for rice or rice vermicelli according to their preference. A combination of either noodle or

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along with slices of tomato, boiled potato, hard-boiled egg, cabbages, peanut,

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and beef,

or chicken meat are added. Broth is then poured over this combination. This soup is made from beef or chicken stock and some other spices. Condiments are usually added, such as ''jeruk nipis'' (lime juice), '' sambal, bawang goreng'' (fried

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), vinegar, ''kecap manis'' (sweet

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), and '' emping''.

Variants

Yellow noodles served in ''soto'' soup is mainly known in two major different versions; the beef (''soto mie'') and chicken (''mee soto'') versions.

Soto mie (Bogor and Jakarta)

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, West Java. It is a popular street food sold by travelling ''gerobak'' or cart vendors frequenting business and residential areas in cities and towns in Indonesia. The beef broth soup is spiced with

, garlic, candlenut, peppercorn, ground ''ebi'' ( dried shrimp), ''daun salam'' (Indonesian bayleaf), lime leaves, bruised lemongrass and lime juice. It is made of beef or cow's trotters (tendons, skin and cartilage) with noodles, slices of risole (fried spring rolls with ''

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'' and vegetables filling similar to ''

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''), tomato, cabbage, potato, and celery. The Jakarta ( Betawi) version is very similar to the version found in Bogor, but beef meat is preferred over cow's trotters, and

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is added in its spice mixture.

Mee soto (Singapore and Johor)

and

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, the most popular variant is ''mee soto ayam'' (chicken noodle soto). ''Mee soto'' is a spicy noodle soup dish that combines the Indonesian chicken broth known as '' soto ayam'' with thick yellow Hokkien noodles. The chicken broth is spiced with spice paste made of ground peppercorns, coriander, garlic, candlenut, galangal, red onion, turmeric, bruised lemongrass, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon. ''Mee soto'' is a Javanese influenced dish, and quite popular in Singapore and Johor. Basically it is pretty similar with '' soto ayam'' (chicken soto) commonly served in Indonesia, with exception it is served with noodle instead of rice vermicelli. The origin of the ''soto ayam'' broth used for making ''mee soto'' can be traced to the Madurese migrant ethnic group residing in the Indonesian city of Surabaya in East Java. The East Javanese immigrants from

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and Lamongan settled in Johor and Singapore, bringing with them the spicy ''soto ayam'' broth dish, and replacing the rice dumpling (''

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'') with yellow noodle.

References

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Ingredients

Variants

Soto mie (Bogor and Jakarta)

Mee soto (Singapore and Johor)

See also

References