Soto Padang

Soto Padang is a traditional soup and a type of soto originating from Padang. This soup consists of five parts – soup ingredients, spices for the stock, spice paste, chili sauce, and garnishes or accompaniments. The ingredients for the soup include beef, galangal, bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves, cloves, star anise, salt, sugar, and white pepper. The soup stock is made with garlic, coriander, salt, and white pepper. The spice paste consists of shallots, garlic, hot peppers, turmeric, and ginger, while the chili sauce is made with a combination of oil, shallots, salt, sugar, and ground hot peppers. The soup is simmered until everything is nice and tender, and it's then garnished or complemented with glass noodles, scallions, lime wedges, shallot flakes, and potato fritters known as perkedel kentang.