I say Curry Sauce because it isn’t like the full on bowl of curry you would get if you ordered it at a Thai restaurant. Instead it is a rice topping, if you will, and one that isn’t too overpowering for the kiddos at our table.
First go ahead and chop all those yummy onions and green peppers and get them sizzling in a few teaspoons of veggie oil.
Then dice up in smallish pieces the potatoes and throw those in with the veggies. Open the coconut milk and pour it into the wok or pan. Get it nice and bubbly, we need to boil the potatoes in this mixture. Add curry and salt.
Look at it getting bubbly! Yummy! This part will take about 20 minutes, depending on the size of potato that needs to soften and how high you have it turned up.
While that is happening call your kids in to do their evening chores, put a toddler in time out for screaming in the kitchen, check a few kids’ homework, tell your son to turn down the song he is listening to on Pandora and chop up a bunch of cilantro.
Dish up bowls of equal parts rice and ‘curry sauce’ and top with fresh cilantro. Dig In!
Vegan Curry Sauce and Rice {serves 10}
Chop up 2 green peppers and 2 onions and sauté in a teaspoon or 2 of veggie oil in a large wok of skillet
Dice up smallish pieces of 6 medium sized potatoes and add them to the pan
Open 2 14 oz cans of coconut milk and pour it over the veggies
Add 1 teaspoon salt and 3 tablespoons curry powder { this is all about you and your families preferences here! And the potency of your curry powder. Not all are made equal! I purchased mine in the bulk organic section of Fred Meyers and have been happy with it. Maybe you like less, maybe you like way more. If it was just for me and my husband we would add more- but this is for a bunch of kids and the goal is for them to eat and enjoy it!}
Let it come to a boil and get those potatoes soft, about 20 min.
Meanwhile make a pot of rice. We used 3 cups of white basmati long grain rice and it was the right amount for this meal.
Chop one bunch of cilnatro
Serve one scoop of rice, topped with one scoop of curry and a handful of cilantro in a bowl and enjoy!
So seriously curry sauce is just coconut milk and curry? hmm..I think I can make that. But I think i may use it as a stir fry sauce with peppers and carrots and broccoli over rice. or maybe with potatoes, but then I’d have to dump the rice.
That is so crazy I would never have put cilantro on a non-mexican dish. I think I like the other Heather B’s ideas of using as a stir fry sauce. I wouldn’t have thought it was so few ingredients. I even have a can of coconut milk!