Kedgeree

This dish started life as khichiri, a comforting ayurvedic breakfast dish consisting of rice, lentils and spices, which is still popular in India today. The British in India began by eating it this way, but over time a ‘hybrid emerged out of the relationship between Indian cooks and the wives of Company officials. In the belief that dining remained an essential component of British identity, the latter generally insisted on adapting the recipe to their own culinary tastes’ as Ishita