Kidgeree

Ingredients

• 4 units of boiling ghee
• 4 units sliced onions
• 4 units of well-washed rice
• 4 units ddh
• some slices of green ginger
• peppercorns
• salt
• cloves
• cardamoms
• 1 stick or two of cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Fry the onions in ghee, remove, then add rice and dal.

2. 2

   Fry until the butter is absorbed.

3. 3

   Add spices and cover with water.

4. 4

   Simmer until almost dry, stirring occasionally.

5. 5

   Serve with fried onions on top.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 248. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

kidgeree. 4. DS,1 Pooree. — Five units of washed. Boil till tender. Add 1 unit ground onions, ^ of ground chillies, of ginger and turmeric mixed, a clove of gaidic, and ^ unit .salt. Brown G onions in 2 units butter and stir to the ddl. Make a llour-and-water p<a.ste as for water biscuits. Take a piece of this the size of a walnut and hollow into a saticer, put into this sufficient quantity of the prepared dal. Lay on another similar saucer, lute the edges, and roll out as thin as possible. M'^hen the size of a dinner plate fry in boiling Or the dal can be nuide into j)uffs or rissoles with ordinary puff pa-ste. 5. Dumpoke. — One boned chicken. Make a forcemeat with 3s6 The Indian Housekeeper and Cook 357 boiled rice as for pilau, and fresh herbs, and onions, and hard-boiled eggs. Stuff the chicken with this and braise it gently. 6 Kulleah Yekhanee.— Slice 32 units solid of lean mutton into a stewpin with enough water to coi'er it add of ginger and cloves, 1 unit sugar, 2 of lime juice, and j unit cuiiy powder, and salt to taste. Stew till tendei. 7 Kidgeree.— Into 4 units of boiling ghee fry 4 units sliced onions, cut lengthways. Remove, add 4 units of well-washed rice, and 4 units ddh Fry till the butter is absorbed. Add some slices of green ginger, peppei'corns, salt, cloves, and cardamoms to taste, am •1 stick or two of cinnamon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.