Golden Bhoonee Kitcheeree

Kedgeree, that concoction of spiced rice, smoked haddock and eggs served as a brunch dish, takes its inspiration from ‘kitcheeree’ or ‘khichari’. In her book Curry: A Biography, Lizzie Collingham notes that this dish of two grains (often rice and lentils although many regions in India had their own version according to which grain or pulse they commonly grew) was a ‘staple food of rural peasants’ during the sixteenth and seventeenth c