What is Soto?

Soto, sroto, or coto is typical Indonesian food made from meat and vegetable broth. The most common meat used is beef and chicken, but also pigs and goats. Various regions in Indonesia has its own type of soup, with different content, such as Kediri Soto soto Madura, soto Betawi, Soto Padang, soto Bandung, Sokaraja soto, soto Banjar, soto Medan, coto Makassar. Soto was also named after its contents, such as chicken soup, tripe soup, goat soup. Soto has many similarities with the soup.

Because there are several kinds of soup in Indonesia, each has a way of presenting different. Soto could be served with various toppings, such as crackers, meatball, melinjo chips, chili sauce, peanut sauce, and others. And also it is with other additives such as satay pindang eggs, satay shells, lime, Koya (mixed stack of chips with garlic), etc.. As we know that the Indonesian staple food is rice, so the soup is usually served with rice as the main menu. However, there are differences in terms of rice is the main menu. Most soup with rice served separately, such as Soto Betawi, Soto Padang, and others. However, there is also served with rice or soup mixed with rice, for example Holy Soto. In addition, there are also soup served with rice cake or rice are cooked wrapped in banana leaves, for example Coto Makassar. Then, there is also the use of noodles, not rice as the main menu, for example Soto Mie Bogor. (wikipedia)


See also : wine

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