Kedgeree Risotto
Category: Main Dishes | Blog URL: http://www.foodforthoughtnutrition.ca/?p=109
This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.
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About
Kedgeree is a dish that I first read about in a Rosamunde Pilcher novel. I’m often inspired to make things that I read about and this is no exception. It doesn’t seem to be well known outside of the UK.
I did some searching online and found a few different recipes. I couldn’t find smoked haddock at the grocery store so I decided to use pickled herring instead, mainly because it was on special at Costco. Kedgeree is a bit low on veggies so I threw in a few to make the dish more colourful.
I turned it into a risotto because I had lots of arborio rice and I find making risotto quite relaxing (when my husband is home to wrangle the kids). There’s something very soothing about standing at the stove, methodically adding ladles of water or stock to the pan.
Kedgeree Risotto Recipe
To start the kedgeree, I put three eggs into a pot of boiling water and cooked them for 10 minutes until they were hard boiled. Once they were cool, I peeled and chopped them.
I put about 1 L of chicken stock in a pot and heated it on low. You might not use all of it.
Next, I chopped half a large onion and sliced up some mushrooms. I melted about 30 g of butter in a large pot and added the onions and mushrooms. I cooked them on medium heat until they were soft, stirring frequently. I put in 300 g of arborio rice (~1.5 cups) and 2 tsp of curry powder and stirred until the rice was covered in melted butter and the grains made little clicking sounds as they were stirred.
I added 75 ml of white wine and cooked until the wine had evaporated. At this point, I started ladling in the chicken stock. You pour 1 ladle of stock into the pot and then stir until the stock has been absorbed. Then you add another ladle and repeat until the rice is tender.
To serve it, I added some chopped tomatoes, 250 g pickled herring and the chopped egg on top. It was very yellow and the tomatoes gave it a nice dash of colour. Some chopped parsely wouldn’t have gone amiss either but I didn’t have any.
Kids’ Verdict
Toddler : Ate the chopped tomatoes and poked at the rice. Asked to be excused from the table after about 3 minutes.
Baby: Loved it. All we heard from the high chair was grunting and snuffling sounds as she gobbled up her meal.
