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Kedgeree with Flaked Smoked Haddock & Soft Eggs
The Anglo-Indian rice that made breakfast interesting in 1860 and still does.
🍽️ British
⏱️ 10 min prep · 30 min cook
👥 Serves 2
📊 Home Cook
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Ingredients
- 12 oz Smoked Haddock
- 1 cup basmati rice, rinsed
- 1½ cups milk (for poaching)
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp curry powder
- ½ tsp turmeric
- 1 cup Peas
- 3 eggs
- 1 lemon, in wedges
- Chopped parsley or cilantro, salt, and cayenne
Method
- Slip the Smoked Haddock into barely simmering milk and poach gently 6–8 minutes until it flakes; lift out, reserving the milk, and break into big flakes.
- Boil the eggs 6½ minutes for jammy yolks; cool, peel, and quarter.
- Soften the onion in butter, bloom the curry powder and turmeric 1 minute, then stir in the rice. Add the poaching milk topped up with water to 1¾ cups, cover, and cook on low 12 minutes.
- Fold in the Peas and rest, covered, 5 minutes, then fork through the flaked Smoked Haddock gently so it stays in proud pieces.
- Top with the eggs, herbs, a pinch of cayenne, and lemon wedges. Serve warm, not scalding — kedgeree likes a moment to settle.
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