Either Pinot Gris or Riesling, or Pouilly-Fumé, Rully or Petit-Chablis from Bourgogne. So, from kipper and wine tasting sessions for le blog, I suggest expressive white wine partners from the Alsace. However, with this starter recipe it can be tricky matching strong, smoked fish dishes with wine. Kippers for breakfast are great with strong breakfast tea. What Wines Go Well with Strong, Smoked Fish Dishes? Although I’ve slightly altered it over the years, it still remains a wonderfully easy dish to prepare. I first discovered this recipe by Christopher Trotter in “Scottish Traditional Recipes”. Personally, I prefer to take out as many bones as I can find, so it does take a few more minutes to prepare. The one thing I remembered was picking our way through the number of finicky bones – perhaps that’s why they’re cheaper than the other smoked fish, but small kipper bones are perfectly edible and often regarded as the best part!
Kippers for breakfast has always been something special, as we didn’t have them often – probably following the rare times that Grandpa had some left from his fish van’s morning rounds on the East Coast, just south of Edinburgh. Serve with a knob of melting butter skating on the surface with an accompanying large pot of strong breakfast tea. To serve kippers for breakfast, they’re just heated through (cook in foil for 10 minutes like in the recipe below). Kippers are normally the kings at the Scottish breakfast table. I use a 800w microwave and 2-2.5 mins is perfect, if your microwave is stronger/weaker adjust timings a bit.For those of you unfamiliar with kippers, they’re brined or salted smoked herrings and presented butterflied. Season salt and pepper and serve with a slice of toast to help digest any little bones that sneak through.Gently peel away the main backbone by the tail and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil and squeeze of fresh lemon.Microwave, yes micowave, for 2.5 minutes.How to cook kippers for breakfast (or any time of day): Moist, perfectly cooked and ready in 2 minutes. Cooked the kippers, deboned them for the kids and sat down ready to have my own.Īfter all that I must confess this isn’t really a recipe on how to cook kippers – it couldn’t be simpler and some may gasp, some may protest, but the way we cook kippers is the only way I’ve ever had them and they taste great. The following weekend I bought three kippers for breakfast. Needless to say the little scavengers that I love dearly ate the lot (which deep down I loved that they did). “Yes, of course you can, but not a lot, I’ve not had any breakfast yet and only bought the one” “it’s a kipper, I’ve just told your sister” “OK, just a little, I only bought one, here you go”Īll the while number two is peering over his porridge at this conversation and eventually curiosity gets the better of him. a smoked fish that Daddy is having or breakfast” I sit down, remove the bones and the first one pipes up. So, as the kids sat down and I drizzled some maple syrup over their porridge I cooked my kipper and prepped it to have for breakfast with a simple squeeze of lemon and drizzle of olive oil. We eat breakfast together at weekends and I’ve banged on about the awesome pancakes the kids love, or the one-pan corned beef hash with baked eggs, but I always thought kippers would be a step too far. If truth be told I never thought my kids would go for it. So having kippers for breakfast was fun, and learning how to cook kippers in a few minutes and eat them was a life skill that decades on I now share with my kids. I got such a crack of seeing the whole fish bone being removed – it was like a cartoon sketch of a cat eating a whole fish and is left with the entire skeleton. it made me feel like a grown up I mean I’m seven years old and eating a bloody kipper! 2. My Dad would pick some kippers up and we’d sit around the kitchen table intricately removing the bones and devouring the smokey first meal of the day. But first, having kippers for breakfast really reminds me of being a kid. How to cook kippers – want to have kippers for breakfast? You should… Understanding how to cook kippers couldn’t be easier.
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