Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Kedgeree
Anglo-Indian breakfast: leftover rice, flaked fish, curry powder, a boiled egg, butter. Parsley. It should taste like spice and smoke, not fried rice with fish in it.
The sheet · 2 plates · 30 min
easyWhy tonight. Anglo-Indian breakfast: leftover rice, flaked fish, curry powder, a boiled egg, butter. Parsley. It should taste like spice and smoke, not fried rice with fish in it.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- rice
- cod
- eggs
- curry powder
- butter
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: parsley.
Method
- Flake leftover fish. Warm leftover rice in butter with curry powder until it smells toasted.
- Fold the fish through. A boiled egg, halved. Parsley.
- It should taste like spice and smoke, not fried rice with fish in it.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
- Pie doughKeeping butter in visible pieces and gluten underdeveloped, which is the exact opposite of bread and trips everyone once.tough · shrank in the tin · greasy · cracked when rolled · soggy bottom
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- cod
- Lean, mild and flaky, which makes it a vehicle rather than a flavor.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- curry powder
- A blend, not a spice, and every tin is a different blend.
- butter
- Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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