Mummy wants kedgeree!!

antronella

Does anyone know how to make kedgeree? (sp?) My mum is 84 and i make her evening meal every day, which is tricky 'cause she doesn't like much and her appetite isn't good. Today she asked me to buy some kedgeree as she said she had remembered making it years ago..and really fancied some!

Tried M&S, but they said they had stopped selling it. I know it has smoked yellow fish in it and rice and would have a go if anyone could advise! Thanks.

PasturesNew

Kedgeree is traditionally a rice/haddock dish.

So working around that there are a number of alternatives.

At its most basic, it is simply coloured rice/haddock/eggs mixed together, with an easy recipe being to just boil rice - usually with something (turmeric?) in the water so it's coloured/flavoured, then mix that with the other ingredients in a frying pan and heat through until it's all hot/cooked.

Here are some links to kedgeree variations:

Tuna/Sweetcorn: http://www.therecipecorner.com/2007/02/25/tuna-and-sweetcorn-kedgeree/

Curried kedgeree: http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/curry2.htm

Buttery kedgeree: http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/buttery-kedgeree,1284,RC.html

For slimmers! http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/food/rcp/index.aspx?recipeid=54543

Good luck!

Olliebeak

There's this one that I've just googled.
http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/kedgeree.htm
Personally I've only made it once, and I didn't use any tomato ketchup in my recipe. Maybe it's a bit of Scottish thing.

Here's another one but without the curry powder:
http://thefoody.com/fish/kedgeree.html

and Jamie Oliver's version:
http://www.nibblous.com/recipe/197

good luck - looks like there's plenty of variations on the theme! Maybe it would be a good idea to ask your mum what she remembers about the kedgeree that she ate. They don't all have curry in them for example!


ooops looks like somebody beat me to it lol!

antronella

:T sounds simple enough..I hope! I will give this a try over the weekend..and I'll look at those links. Thanks for the speedy reply!

antronella

Thanks Ollie...mum has very poor memory (vascular dementia) so don't think she would remembe how she made it...she gets upset when she can't remember stuff too, so think I'll just go with it and hope for the best!

Olliebeak

antronella wrote: »

Thanks Ollie...mum has very poor memory (vascular dementia) so don't think she would remembe how she made it...she gets upset when she can't remember stuff too, so think I'll just go with it and hope for the best!

So sorry to hear about mum's vascular dementia - that can be a bit of a beggar when it comes to asking them about what they remember. Though very often what they remember from years ago is far more reliable than 'what did you have for lunch today?'/'where did you go yesterday?'.

Best to keep the kedgeree fairly simple then and go easy on the curry content (unless, of course, you know that she spent lots of time in India where the dish originated from).