potato carrot curry and rice

Ingredients

• 2 russet potatoes, chopped
  
• 2 sweet potatoes, chopped
  
• 3/4 cup carrots, cut into rounds
• 1 white onion, chopped finely
• 1/2 green apple, chopped finely
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup skim milk
• 2 tbs butter/margarine
• 1 tbs brown sugar
• salt and pepper
• 3 tsp red curry paste
• 1 tbs sweet curry (or a mixture of cinnamon, cardamom, cumin, turmeric, clove, coriander, fenugreek, ginger, numeg, fennel, white pepper, black pepper, red pepper)
  
• vegetable oil
• garlic chili sauce
• any other hot sauce you want
• 1/2 cup raisins

Sautee onions with veg. oil until brown/translucent.
Add some sweet curry. Stir.
Add all the chopped potatoes, carrots, and apple.
Add 1 tbs of red curry paste.
Add milk, butter, and water. Stir and cover. Cook until potatoes are tender, about 5-10 minutes.
Add the remainder of seasonings and sauces, plus brown sugar.
Add more seasonings if desired.
Add all raisins.
Season with salt and pepper.

To make sticky rice:
Rinse rice and soak for several hours (preferably over-night (we did not do this)).
Line steaming basket with cheesecloth, coffee filter, or thick paper towel. Drain rice and add to basket. Place basket in a pan filled with 2-3 inches of water. Turn to high heat and steam for 20-25 minutes. Serve

Thoughts: Delicious, I think. Dan doesn't think it looks like curry. If you want something more curry-ish, cook it less long. We cooked it such that the sweet potatoes got quite mushy. I personally enjoyed it, but I'm not too familiar with what curry should look like. This would probably be better with coconut milk, but it was delicious as it was. Dan is going to try mixing some curry with plain yoghurt. He'll report back.
We didn't follow traditional procedure for making sticky rice. We soaked it for about 15 minutes instead of several hours. As a consequence, it took forever to steam the rice, and even after 30 minutes, the rice was still crunchy. Dan decided to take it out of the steamer and cook it in a little bit of boiling water. After 4-5 minutes the rice became moister and sticky. So we worked that out.

Disaster Index: 2/10