Mie Jawa

Honestly, I'm running out of cooking ideas even though there are still lots of recipes from Bu Sisca's book that I haven't tried! So, I asked my mom for her yummy Mie Jawa recipe. This recipe will be out of my kitchen first thing before the others (which the picture is already uploaded on my Facebook) because my friend from far Makassar had requested it this morning. 

Hope you enjoy ya Mbak ;)

Ingredients:

Soup:

• 500gr boneless chicken breast
• 2 chicken drumstick
• 2 liters water
• 4 long green onion (daun bawang)
• 8 cloves garlic
• 1 clove red onion
• 1/2 tsp white pepper (merica)
• 1-1 1/2 tsp sweet soy sauce
• 1 tomato
• 2 sticks of celery
• Salt
• Sugar
• Olive oil

 Complements:

• Egg noodles
• Cabbage, chopped and boiled until soft
• Fried shallots (bawang goreng)
• Water-boiled egg (optional)

How to make:

• Boil chicken with salt until chicken is tender. When it's done, take the chicken out and break it into small pieces with hands.
• Ground garlic, red onion, and white pepper together.
• Saute the ground spices and chopped green onion with a bit of oil until aromatic.
• Pour the sauteed mix into the chicken broth.
• Add diced tomato and sweet soy sauce. Stir and bring to boil.
• Add chopped celery. Then, add salt to the desired amount of saltiness and sugar to get the balance of taste.
• In individual bowl, prepare egg noodles, cabbage, and pieces of chicken. Pour the soup and sprinkle fried shallots on top.

Notes:

• You can change the chicken according to your taste (or what you have in your fridge :P). I used drumstick for making the broth and the chicken fillet for more meat.
• Olive oil can be substituted with cooking oil. I used olive oil because it's healthier.
• Anyway, the measures above is my estimation (because my mom never give the exact amount of ingredients). But if you want to enhance the taste, just add more spices, hehehe.
• Most importantly, use ayam kampung any way possible! They taste a lot better than the huge injected chicken in Australia.