Kedgeree – Classic Breakfast
- 16
- December
- 2009
Kedgeree:
Pairing rice and lentils is an age old tradition in India. Kitchri is a pheasant meal and considered as comfort food throughout India. During Mughal dynasty, the kitchri went through series of changes. They infused it with strong spices, enriched with nuts and also presented it at social gatherings!
During British raj…the traditional kitchri took a different dimension. Addition of fish and eggs are the noteworthy points here. Thanks, they still add curry powders (makes it easier to trace the origin’)! Anyway, the recipe was soon adopted by Anglo-Indian families and it made its way to Britain. Now Kedgeree is such a fashionable dish and it is served at the finest hotels as Classic Breakfast (Britain).
Ingredients:
Butter 2 cubes
Haddock (preferably smoked) 300 grams
Hard boiled eggs 4
Long grain rice 1 cup
Milk 1 cup
Salt as per taste
Large White Onion 1 sliced
Turmeric ¼ teaspoon
Curry Powder 2 teaspoons
Bay leaves 2
Parsley leaves few
Lemon wedges to garnish.
Method:
Slice the hard boiled eggs and set aside.
Heat milk in a sauce pan. Add fish to it, let the milk cover the fillets completely. Once the fish is done, remove from heat. Try to remove the fish bones, pin bones if any and skin them. Then flake the fish and set aside.
Cook rice with enough salt in it.
In a large wok, melt butter. Add bay leaves and onions. Fry real good, maybe till onions are reddish brown. Add well-cooked rice to it now.
Further add turmeric powder, curry powder and chopped parsley leaves. Once the rice is done with beautiful yellow color. Add fish to it…fry real good and remove from heat. Garnish with sliced eggs and lemon wedges.
Serve warm for breakfast.
Wow fantastic dish, never heard about this beautiful dish, thanks for sharing Malar..
Wow, fascinating histoy and lovely filling recipe. Looks really yummy!
I saw this one in a magazine recently, until the i never knew abt this..
Looks so yummy dea..!!!
Something new and delicious looking too…
Never heard of this!! Thanks for the recipe!!
Very new dish to me Malar…sounds almost like briyani…I think I too would love to have this for breakfast.
Looks so good and different.. Very new dish.
great info…looks very yummy…
Interesting & delicious malar..thanks for sharing
Dear malar
. I always like your intro to whatever you write!!
This is absolutely a new dish for me. and never used curry powder normally available outside India.I used to see lot of curry powder packet in Korean dept stores and all made in england!! I used to wonder where it was used. In India all masala powders are for specific use like chicken masala, Briyani spice etc etc .. Now I understand where it is used.
And thank you so much for the Funda on KhichDi at the beginning
Have a great day and a pre-weekend
New recipe. Sounds exotic!
Great to know about it. Nice dish I must say…looks yummy.
Thanks so much for this information. I never knew about this dish or its history. In fact, just the thought of having this is enticing enough to eat breakfast even on rush filled morning.
Sounds new and delicious….Nice clicks toooooo.
thanks frist for this informative introduction of this dish. the decoaration is awesome and would love to have it for all b’fast, lunch and dinner.
Yumm I love kedgree, this one looks extra yummy never knew it was a breakfast dish
new to me….looks so yum!
Never heard about this rice,taste must be good
Totally new to me,never had rice for bfast…looks and sounds gr8…
Rice cooked with fish, hmmm sounds gr8.
Very new recipe Malar. Sounds delicous.
new dish to me..looks delicious.
hey this is new 2 me…its luks delicious malar
Sounds gr8!!new to me..Thanks for sharing malar
oh what a delicious breakfast! i’d love to start my day out with this!
The english know when to copy a good thing. I LOVE khichri, and this oh-so-british version is definitely intriguing. Not crazy about smoked fish, but the rest of it, I’m totally digging.
fantastic dish and this is a new one to me.. haven’t heard of it before but looks delicious
Although, I don’t make kedgeree often, but I love it! I too would want to have this for breakfast! Mmm… Adding fish must be real good!
this is a new recipe for me!!! Malar, nee chicken Rani ondi dhaan nanachen, ippo “history teacher” nnu new pattam kudukka poren, hihihihi!
Yeppadi Malar, from the Mughals to the British…… hum hum, unna adichikkavey mudiyaadhu!!!
back to serious topics now, this recipe intrigues me very much as the recipe sounds really interesting with the milk poached haddock with the mildly spiced rice, it ‘s like a marriage between an Indian and a British, I might sound stupid (I think I’m blabbering because of the extremely cold tempertaure here heheheh)but this is how it sounds to me!! and I have always loved the eggs and fish combination!!! nice recipe Malar!!!
That’s absolutely new to me…very interesting recipe..?Yes the Britishraj had influence on the style of both cooking and eating in India
This recipe is new to me too. Also loved ur into abt how the kitchri evolved into kedgeree. Apart from rice,lenthils and some vegetables never thought abt adding fish and eggs.
nice info,it’s perfect for any meal of the day….as for fish, correct me if I’m wrong(i read it twice to cross check), do u put it in the dish or just let it sit aside, I guess you forget to mention at which stage fish goes in…..nice click
hey, just posted my kitchen mishap…
recently i got to know about this kedgiri…it’s so typical of an English breakfast…hearty n filling..
we have so many versions of khichri here in India….no wonder they picked it up n refashioned it..
Very new to me…sounds interesting and looks exotic.
your preparation & decoration super.malar
Luv the decoration of eggs on the kedgeri
Thanks for the history on the origin and transformation of the dish Malar! It does look great and filling too