kedgeree

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1. countableobsoleteuncountableKhichdi.
2. countableuncountableAn Anglo-Indian dish of flaked, smoked haddock, eggs and rice.

   Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter.

   1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

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   Kedgeree was the invention of the British in colonial India, but was inspired by khichuri, a more ancient dish of rice and lentils, so here I’ve reinstated the pulses in the form of mung dal and peas: an Indian dish, adapted by the British, and changed again by an Indian living in Britain.

   2024 May 7, Tamal Ray, “Kedgeree and lamb curry: Tamal Ray’s recipes for homely favourites”, in The Guardian, →ISSN