Soto

Soto, Sroto, or Coto is an Indonesian food where it made from meat broth and vegetables. The meat witch mostly in used is cow and chicken, however pig and goat it’s used to. A various place in Indonesia is have one own soto kind, with defferent ingredient, for example SOTO MADURA, SOTO BETAWI, SOTO PADANG, SOTO BANDUNG, SOTO SOKARAJA, SOTO BANJAR, COTO MAKASAR. It’s also be named according to ingredient, for example SOTO AYAM(chicken), SOTO BABAT(inner organ meat), SOTO KAMBING(goat).

Because there is some soto kind in Indonesia, each have a deferent way to serve. Soto can be serve with a various kind of side dish, example Kerupuk, Perkedel(croquette of spicy ground meat and boiled potatoes or other starch), Emping Melinjo(1 chips made of pounded Gnetum gnemon seeds), Sambal, pea sauce and others. As we know staple food’s of Indonesian is rice, so soto usually served with rice as main menu. However there some deferent in that main menu. Almost Soto served apartly with rice, like SOTO BETAWI, SOTO PADANG, and others. However, there is also served with mix’s Soto and rice, like SOTO KUDUS. And what is more, there is also serve with Lontong or boiling rice with banana leaf cover, foe example COTO MAKASAR. Then, there is served with noodles , and not rice as main menu, like SOTO MIE BOGOR.