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Love to see you all on monday especially the FAVM community😊 where you can enjoy the beauty and wonderful photos of fruits and veggies around the world also great recipes from talented chefs.
Im not a photographer nor a chef 😊 I just love to have fun on monday😉
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Sambal Mustafa actually a sweet crispy potatoes in chilli sauce.
You have seen the wet version of this food from our last week's judge 
the common one usually use anchovies to get the salty taste too.
I made this on saturday (Indonesia Western Time or GMT+7), it took nearly 4 hours to complete the cooking process (I was trying to use the cooking oil to fry the grated potatoes efficiently😊). Okay.. Let's start cooking (because I need to do another real cooking for my family soon).
What You Need to Make Sambal Mustafa and How to?
Grated the potatoes and clean it till the water is clear.
We need to prepare;
- A kilogram potatoes
- 10 red chillies, 8 cloves Garlic , 6 cloves shallot, 10 pieces of kaffir lime leaves, 3 big clumps of lemongrass and 2 eyes of tamarind.
- 100 ml cooking oil to mashed with the seasoning and enough amount to deep fry the potato.
- 4 table spoon full sugar and a tsp salt
- 200 grams tempe (slice and deep fry)
- 200 grams ground peanuts (deep fry)
Let's start and proceed♨🚀
the ingredients to make the sambal.
Mashed the chillies, onion and garlic with 100 ml cooking oil and a tsp salt. We can do this when the grated potatoes already on the frying pan. Since I don't have the deep-fryer tool, so I will use the only metal wok I have😊 inherited from my belated MIL (never met her, she passed away in 2006).
the second tips to get a crunchy fried potato is don't bother to stir it up while it's on fire😊 when you heard the cooking oil not too noisy babbling, turn the potatoes to the other side and move it out and dry it when the cooking oil is so quiet.
yeap.. I like my tempe thin and crispy too😊 so, I'll hardly known where is it after mix it up later😆 make sure you don't over-fry the ground peanuts😉
3 hours to prepare all the fries😁😅😆 I hope that when you re-cook this, you will take it less longer than mine😊. Now, time to proceed the Sambal☺
we don't use any water or other liquid except the cooking oil😊 that's the secret why this sambal will stay crispy after few days (sometimes a month)
Stir-fry the mashed ingredients for a few minutes till the smell of the chilli and onion softer, than add the slices fragrant green and white things, also the 2 eyes of tamarind. Fry it and stir it up and down😊 you can make some noise with the wok if you want to😆 right when you see the sambal is shiny red and you can smell the fragrance of lime-lemon, time to add 4 table spoon full sugar and make sure you mux it well and lower the heat too.. so it won't be a caramelized sauce (it will be hard and won't cover up all the fries). Then pour the fried peanuts, tempe, mix it well and then the fried crispy potato. Mix it ... that's fine if you crash it a little, not too beautiful but will be delicious to eat😊. Turn off the heat and let ut cool before you keep it in a food container with lid.
you got this Sambal Mustafa😇 you can eat it with rice or just change tour popcorn while watching the sport with this. TASTY, sweet, salty and crispy (if you like it spicy too, just add more red chillies😊).
not so tips and tricks😊
If you don't have the kaffir lime leaf, you can use the dried basil or oregano.
if you don't have tamarind and lemongrass, then use minced ginger and galangal.
you don't need to keep this in the fridge, it will be fine in home temperature. Though I call this Sambal Mustafa, it's actually just another crispy-crunchy snack like potato chips😊
and if you don't have potato, you can subtitute it with yucca/cassava or sweet potato. If you choose sweet potato, better skip the sugar😊
if you don't like tempe, you can skip it too and if you are not a vegan, use the fried anchovies, it will add a salty taste and yummy too.
By The Way, Who is Mustafa, cici?
Well.. I have many friends named Mustafa but I don't know who was the one created this recipe😁 and I assumed that this sambal called as Sambal Mustafa because when you see this in the middle of other kind of fries, you will definitely choose it.
Mustafa means The Chosen One, it's not Mourinho or Harry Potter.. but Mustafa😉😆
You may call this spicy potato too😊 you are free to name your dish and foods you've prepared I think😊 and I will follow the trend, many people in Indonesia call this Sambal Mustafa or Sambal Goreng Kentang. I think you have your own words for this, because this is not an original recipe from my country too.
by the way😊 this is not My FIL's favourite, he can't eat crunchy crispy foods😊 so it's mine and my hubby's favourite😆 we can have our daily meals just with rice+sambal mustafa for months😆.