Healthy Kedgeree (Quick Recipe)

Looking for an easy mid week dinner or lazy weekend breakfast? This easy, healthy Kedgeree recipe's delicious: Curried fried rice with smoked Haddock and eggs. It's a simple dish, and a healthy, fast, easy dinner when time's short. If you struggle to get the kids to eat fish, this might well be the dinner that helps!

What Is Kedgeree?

Kedgeree is an ancient dish eaten across India (originally called Khichiri) and developed into it's current form during the 1800's. These days Kedgeree, while officially speaking is a breakfast dish, is eaten as a light supper as well as breakfast.

Using smoked Haddock and boiled eggs as the main protein of this Kedgeree recipe, this fried curried rice dish is a hit with the kids, and is an easy way of getting some fish into them, even the one that's fussy about eating any fish other than a fish finger :)

Healthy Kedgeree

Kedgeree is a pretty healthy recipe to start with. I didn't used to make this enough given how easy it is, and when I did I'd use white rice as that's what the kids ate. As it turns out, they also eat wholegrain rice and honestly, all but one didn't even notice the difference the first time I made the switch from white rice to wholegrain.

It's a little nuttier than white rice and little firmer, but the curry powder used in this recipe helps if you think your kids might object to the flavor of whole grain rice.
Some Kedgeree recipes use cream to bind the rice, but I don't use it. I think without it, it feels like a takeout meal, and if the kids eat it as it is, I'm not going to change a thing :)

Can you reheat Kedgeree the next day?

If you have leftover Kedgeree, it reheats beautifully and makes a if you've had it for dinner the night before, have it again for lunch the next day!

You can actually keep any leftovers in the fridge for 48 hours in an airtight storage tub like these. And using these glass storage tubs means you can reheat easily in the microwave when you need it. Less washing up. Win :)

Do you eat Kedgeree hot or cold?

In this house, we eat Kedgeree hot. However that said, I have known my husband to eat it cold, straight from the fridge, during one of those times when you open the fridge after a night out and scan it for instant snacks. So it can be eaten cold. But it's better hot, in my opinion!

Can you freeze homemade kedgeree?

Kedgeree can be cooked and kept in the freezer for a month. I fresh smoked haddock and freeze the dish completely made, ready to be defrosted and reheated as we want it.
When you're reheating this dish, let it defrost thoroughly. I then reheat it in the microwave. Reheating in the oven tends to dry out the rice, whilst the microwave takes less time and so keeps the rice from drying out.

You could also reheat this in a frying pan, which has the added bonus of refrying the rice. Yum!

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Healthy Kedgeree Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 x Fillets Smoked Haddock - skinned
• 1 x Onion - diced
• 1 teaspoon Curry Powder (I use this mild curry powder)
• 1 Cup Wholegrain Rice (this is the rice I use)
• 4 x Boiled Eggs
• Parsley
• 2 tablespoon Olive Oil

Process

• Heat your oven to 350F / 180C
• Put a pan of boiling water on the cooker top and add your eggs once the water's boiling. Boil your eggs for 5 minutes and then take them of the cooker top and refill the pan with cold water. Leave the eggs on the cold water
• Wrap your fish in foil, so it's fully enveloped and sealed, into the oven until cooked through. Sealing the foil keep the fish moist and stops it from drying out.
• Cook your fish until cooked through, 15-18 minutes
• While the fish is cooking, boil and cook 1 cup dried wholegrain rice until tender
• In a large frying pan (this pan is ideal) heat your Olive oil and add your chopped onion. Cook until soft
• Add the Curry powder to your onion and cook for another 2 minutes, making sure the onions fully combined with the Curry powder
• Add your cooked rice to the curried onions in your pan. Combine and fry for a couple of minutes, making sure the rice doesn't stick to the pan
• Take your cooked Haddock and flake it into the rice in the pan. Combine, turn the heat down and stir occasionally while you shell your boiled eggs
• You can either chop your boiled eggs and combine into the rice and fish, or quarter the eggs and place them on top. My kids prefer to have the eggs mixed in - this is a just-as-you-prefer thing
• Dish up your Kedgeree and throw some chopped parsley on top

Kedgeree Recipe (to print)