Spicy potato recipe with chicken liver. 4 Super Delicious servings!

Let’s start getting creative with cooking. This popular spicy potato recipe is originally from Indonesia. It is called “Kentang goreng sambel”, and it just might be something one can be craving for. If you like spicy foods, then this is a must-try. it’s a high-calorie guilty pleasure dish. Please also subscribe to my YouTube channel, it just takes 1 second.

Before we go any further let’s check the ingredients. Note that this is without MSG.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg of potatoes
  • 500 gr of chicken liver
  • 2 pcs of bitter bean
  • 1/2 box of instant coconut milk

spices to grind

  • 7 cloves of onions
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • 2 small tomatoes
  • 2 cm turmeric
  • 3 pcs curly red chili
  • 3 pcs big red chili
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbs sugar

Aromatic spices

  • 2 pcs of galangal
  • 4 cm of ginger
  • 3 pcs of bay leaves
  • 3 pcs of lemongrass
  • 3 pcs of lime leaves

The list is quite a lot, and if you don’t like it spicy you can just leave out the chilies.

Steps Cooking this potato dish

So we got a lot of ingredients, and all these will be making a tasty dish. There might be something you dislike and you can try to make the spicy potato dish without it. Even leaving out all the sambal or chili and it would still be a tasty dish. But the following this step by step guide will follow using all the ingredients.

I start first by cutting and then with cooking. It’s easier this way. There is a YouTube cooking video of mine at the end of the steps (please subscribe).

Step 1

cutting potatoes

Cut the potatoes in small cubes

Step 2

cutting onions and garlic

Crush and cut garlic and onions.

Step 3

cutting chilies for my spicy potato recipe

Cut small red and long chilies in thin slices.

Step 4

remove seeds from chili

Cut a bug chili, but remove it’s seeds.

Step 5

papan petai, stinky nut, bitter beans

This is actually optional step, I am unsure if you can get bitter beans, also known in Indonesia as papan petai.

Step 6

cutting tomatoes

Cut 2 pieces of tomatoes in one eights.

Step 7

turmeric and ginger

Cut turmeric and ginger in the size of your finger.

Step 8

Smash 4 pieces of Lemon Grass

Smash 4 pieces of lemongrass, this will help release aromas and flavor in the this.

Step 9

Stone grinder with spices

All the herbs you just cut, onion, garlic, chili, turmeric, tomatoes, salt and sugar should be smashed and ground. I use stone pastel.

Step 10

Result of grinding spices for spicy potato recipe

This is how it should look, the process can be a bit long. If you have a blender it’s also optional to use this.

Step 11: cooking the spicy potato recipe

boiling poatoes

boil the potatoes 3-5 minutes. They will be half done only. It’s on purpose because it will be fried later.

Step 12

boiling chicken liver

Boil the chicken liver for 15 minutes. It is surely done by this time.

Step 13

cutting chicken liver

Cut the chicken liver in small cubes as preparation for later.

Step 14

Frying potatoes without oil

Fry the potatoes without oil, you can grease the pan a little bit. Get the potatoes gold brown.

Step 15

frying sambal mixture

Fry the mixture of herbs from step 10, you don’t need oil.

Step 16

add coconut milk to the mixture

Add 100 ml coconut milk while it is getting warm.

Setp 17

adding lemongrass, bay leaf and ginger

Add Lemongrass, Bay leaf, lemon leaf, galangga and ginger

add sugar salt and seasoning

Add sugar salt and seasoning now. I use mushroom powder as a seasoning to avoid MSG.

Step 18

adding cut chicken liver

Add the chicken liver to the mixture.

Step 19

Spicy Potato recipe complete

As a final step add potatoes and mix. Let it rest a while. Also, check out the YouTube video for making spicy potato recipe.

Spicy potato recipe on youtube

My review on this Spicy potato recipe

I made this spicy potato recipe since it is a popular dish from Indonesia. I never made it myself before starting to cook for my YouTube channel. The dish is not hard to make, you just need a little bit of patience and a lot of ingredients.

Some of the ingredients you can leave out if you don’t like it. However, if you follow my recipe step by step, you get a potato dish rich in flavors. It was very delicious and I savored every bite.

Good luck in making this!

Also check out other cooking recipes of mine.

3 thoughts on “Spicy potato recipe with chicken liver. 4 Super Delicious servings!”

  1. Looks delicious. I’m a fan of potatoes and spicy foods. I will try this as soon as I get some of the ingredients

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