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#21
Lets Talk Curry / Re: Kedgeree, anyone ?
December 19, 2024, 04:52 AM
Bit late for you now Phil, but this is one I have scribbled down but for the life of me I cannot remember how it turned out. It originally came from a London hotel.

Kedgeree

A classic colonial breakfast from the iconic Piccadilly eatery. If it's a bit too rich before midday for you, it fits the bill for supper, too.
Recipe supplied by Lawrence Keogh, The Wolseley

Serves 4
For the sauce
1 tbsp vegetable oil
75g onions, finely diced
30g ginger, finely chopped
10g garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp mild curry powder
1 tsp cumin seeds
50g madras curry paste
1 litre fish stock
500ml double cream
Salt and black pepper

For the kedgeree
250g basmati rice
1 tsp ground turmeric
500ml kedgeree sauce (above)
400g smoked haddock, poached in milk, then flaked
½ bunch parsley, chopped
Salt and black pepper
4 eggs, gently poached


1 To make the sauce, in a large, heavy-based saucepan, heat the vegetable oil then cook the onions, ginger and garlic for 5 minutes, until soft but not coloured. Add the curry powder and cumin seeds, then cook for 3 more minutes. Stir frequently. Add the curry paste, then cook, still stirring, for 2 more minutes. Add the fish stock and reduce by ¾, then add the double cream and simmer for 10 minutes, until thickened.

Whizz to a smooth sauce in a blender, then season with salt and pepper.
 
2 Cook the rice as per packet instructions in a saucepan with the turmeric. Gently reheat the sauce, then gradually add to the rice pan, stirring, until you have a thick rice pudding consistency. Add the smoked haddock to the pan and gently warm through.
 
3 To serve, divide the kedgeree between four bowls then scatter with chopped parsley, season with salt and pepper then top each with a soft poached egg.

There is always the Felicity Cloake version from the Grauniad. I have used her recipe before which is a lot simpler that the one above ang gave a good result.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/feb/24/how-to-cook-perfect-kedgeree


#22
I don't believe the old school BIR exist anymore.
Certainly not in Central London. The high Street curry houses are a pale imitation of the many places I visited in the 70's and 80's.
Out of choice now I would look at the Lahore kebab houses around the Aldgate/Whitechapel areas or more likely I would visit anyone of the Dishoom chain that are located throughout London.
#23
Lets Talk Curry / Re: Curry Gravy/Sauce
December 14, 2024, 04:20 PM
Thanks for the replies, lots of food for thought there.
#24
Lets Talk Curry / Re: Curry Gravy/Sauce
December 09, 2024, 07:45 PM
Quote from: Secret Santa on December 09, 2024, 11:45 AM
As you're making stock anyway how about just adding the usual garam masala items such as cardamom, cinnamon, cloves etc. to Indian-spice the stock. Not really sure what you're after as adding anything more would make it a curry sauce rather than a gravy.

Just found this page and it looks interesting. Maybe a modified one of those gravies would suit?  https://setupmyhotel.com/hotel-staff-training/kitchen-staff-training/basic-indian-curries-and-gravy-list-standard-recipe-hotels-chef/


Thanks for that link. Looks promising.
I had found a basic paste recipe to stir into the crispy bits in the roasting pans to quickly cook off before adding chicken stock and thickening.
I don't want anything too strongly spiced, just a chicken gravy with a hint of spice to complement the chicken and potatoes.
#25
Lets Talk Curry / Curry Gravy/Sauce
December 08, 2024, 01:17 PM
I'm looking to make a hybrid roast dinner with curry flavours.
The roasted spatchcock chicken and potatoes will be Indian spiced.
I intend to make a quick stock from the discarded spine and wing tips from the chicken with the usual onion, carrot and celery which I can then add spices, or a homemade paste, to pour into the roasting tray to make a type of "Chicken Curry Bisto Gravy " to pour over the final dish.
Everything I have looked at on the web takes me to a base curry sauce, or a chip shop curry sauce; not quite what I'm looking for.
Has anyone ever come across something similar?
#26
Lets Talk Curry / Re: Diwali 2024
October 29, 2024, 02:15 PM
Quote from: bhamcurry on October 29, 2024, 01:41 PM
my active sinus infection has shut down any desire to mess around with food  :sad:
I wish you a speedy recovery
#27
Lets Talk Curry / Diwali 2024
October 28, 2024, 03:36 PM
Diwali 2024 is upon us. I was wondering if anyone was planning the festival to do anything special.

I won't be cooking until the weekend but am planning a chicken dish and a goat dish.
Not sure which yet.
#28
First day of our shoot yesterday. I don't have a great time available to me so I donated 9 brace of pheasants to our local restaurant and kept back a brace of partridge that I prepped and roasted today. Served with roast spuds, roast beetroot, steamed carrots and sprouts. Finished with a pan sauce made with red wine and redcurrant jelly. Very enjoyable.
#29
Lets Talk Curry / Bombay Duck
August 16, 2024, 05:56 AM
In the formative curry eating days of my youth it was always my preferred starter in a British Indian Restaurant, being dry, salty and fishy...it appealed. Like marmite you either loved it or hated it.

Then the EU banned its importation following a food poisoning scare and the producers back in India couldn't meet the strict EU processing rules. Now it is back in force and I see it in most of the Indian grocers that I frequent.

I have recently been considering adding some to flavour ghee or oil at the beginning of the cooking process, similar to the way some dissolve anchovies in oil at the start of a ragu, or similar; a process I often use to add that extra Umami.

I have trawled the web and can find no previous reference to using BD in this way and wondered whether anyone else has come across the process?

I Know BD can be made into a pickle
https://www.hildastouchofspice.com/2012/07/dried-bombay-duck-chilli-fry-sukha-bombil.html
where it is partially rehydrated and then fried, but I was specifically thinking of it as a tempering, possibly ground up to a fine powder.
#30
Thanks Robbo, much appreciated.
That looks like lunches at work sometime next week.
T63