Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fish pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Living by the sea, we try to eat fish often and this hearty meal is an easy way to enjoy a little bit of what you fancy! This fish pie is good enough for a dinner party and the kids love it, too. To the uninitiated, fish pie has an uninviting name and reputation But this is fish that is gently poached, then swathed in a white sauce and topped with buttery mashed potatoes and finished to a.
Fish pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Fish pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fish pie using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fish pie:
- Prepare Use as much fish as you like, here roughly 400-500g in total for two people:
- Take 1 salmon fillet
- Take 1 small smoked haddock fillet
- Take 1/2 fresh haddock or cod fillet
- Make ready 1 dozen raw prawns, thawed if using frozen
- Take 4-5 medium waxy potatoes
- Get 1 tbsp. butter
- Take 2 heaped tsp of flour
- Prepare 500 ml milk
- Take 500 ml fish stock
- Take 1 tbsp. double cream
- Get ground white pepper
- Make ready 1 grating of nutmeg
- Make ready 100 g grated Gruyère cheese
- Make ready 2 tbsp. grated Parmesan
- Make ready 2 tbsp. finely chopped parsley
- Get 1 handful frozen peas, thawed
- Make ready salt and pepper
Use a combination of smoked fish and unsmoked fish for optimum flavour and texture, plus it's more economical. Combining fish, leeks, milk, butter, and potatoes, a fish pie is a one-pot supper dish. Some like to sprinkle a fish pie with grated cheese but this is optional, as is the addition of hard-cooked eggs seen in some recipes. Serve the pie with peas or other fresh greens.
Instructions to make Fish pie:
- Soak the smoked haddock in the milk for at least half an hour. Rinse and pat dry, reserve the milk for the sauce. Skin all the fish and cut into 2.5cm cubes.
- Boil the potatoes until tender, drain, cool and slice quite thinly.
- Melt the butter in a skillet, add the flour and stir energetically to make the roux. Cook it, stirring, for a few seconds, then start adding milk and stock, stirring continuously. Season with white pepper and the nutmeg. You might not use all the milk or the stock – check if it’s too your taste, not too milky or too fishy. Let it bubble and cook down for a few minutes, stirring every now and again. Add the cream, mix in most of the Gruyere and half the parmesan. Stir it vigorously and cook a bit longer until perfectly smooth and thickened. Leave to cool slightly, then stir in the parsley.
- Layer the fish chunks and the prawns in a gratin or pie dish, scatter the peas among the fish. Season the fish lightly with salt and pepper. Spread the sauce all over the fish, reserving a couple of spoonfuls.
- Layer the potato slices on top of the sauce, season with salt and pepper and dab the rest of the sauce over the potatoes. Sprinkle over the remaining Gruyere cheese and most of the parmesan.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas 6. Bake the pie for 30-35 minutes until bubbling and golden, scatter the rest of the parmesan over the top just before the end of the cooking time. Serve with green salad.
Start by making the mashed potato for the topping. Chop the potatoes into chunks and cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain well and push through a potato ricer, or mash until smooth. Add the butter and hot milk and mix until well incorporated. Fish pie is a universal comfort food, we've given it a Spanish twist and a domino effect potato topping.
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