Top 10 British dishes was summat else 552Khichri Indian style seems to be dishes based on a mixture of rice and lentils or other dal with spices, cooked together. There's one version with avocado as topping that is a...
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:36:02 +0000, Tom Anderson
Perhaps because it's traditionally been seen as a breakfast dish with a "country house weekend party" and hangover-cure image. Though there are many variations it seems to go back to the Raj in its "British"
chopped hard-boiled egg, cold minced fish, and a lump of fresh butter: these are all tossed together in the frying pan, flavoured with pepper, salt, and any minced garden herb such as cress, parsley, or marjoram, and served in a hot dish. The Indian khichri of fish is made like the foregoing with the addition of just enough turmeric powder to turn the rice a pale yellow colour, and instead of garden herbs the garnish is composed of thin julienne-like strips of chilli, thin slices of green ginger, crisply fried onions, etc."
Colonel A. R. Kenney-Herbert,
Weeell... it's mixed ingredients with rice but there are dishes made that way in various traditions. I love dishes that have such mixtures be it egg and fish, meat and fish or whatever. I suppose some might not go for those that mix curry flavours with smoked fish, though.
My father served in an Indian Army Regiment in the war, BTW, so curry was often on the menu - but the British soldiers never chose it. Exotic flavours took a bit longer to arrive. -- Phil C.
