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Simple Way to Make Homemade Fish Pie

Carolyn Cohen   30/04/2020 13:09

Fish Pie
Fish Pie

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fish pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Fish Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Fish Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fish pie using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fish Pie:
  1. Make ready 600-700 g mixed fish. I usually use 200g salmon fillet, 200g smoked haddock and 300g cod loin. (Give or take!) Alternatively, just buy a couple of packets of mixed fish at the supermarket
  2. Make ready 150 g king prawns
  3. Prepare 1 carton cheese sauce (ideally c.350g but carton volumes vary)
  4. Prepare 2 eggs
  5. Take 650 g potatoes. More potatoes can be used if the casserole is big enough and if a deeper topping is wanted
  6. Make ready Butter and milk (for mashing)
  7. Take A few capers (optional)
  8. Make ready Sea salt and pepper
  9. Take 2-4 cherry or similar tomatoes (optional garnish), sliced

This fish pie can be given to your baby once they're weaned. Leave out the mustard and use a mix of fish that doesn't include a salty smoked variety. You could use haddock and salmon for example. Ensure there aren't any bones in the fish.

Steps to make Fish Pie:
  1. Hard-boil the eggs, cool and peel. Cut each egg in half, lengthways.
  2. Simultaneously poach the fish in a large, shallow pan. I usually just bring to the boil and after 1 minute turn off the heat and leave on our electric hob to cool for 5 minutes. A gas hob might require a bit longer simmering.
  3. Drain the fish and lay into a casserole dish, removing any skins and bones as you do so. Try to mix the varieties up a bit so that each portion will have some of everything.
  4. Wipe the prawns on some kitchen paper and add to the casserole, plus the optional capers if desired.
  5. Add the cheese sauce and gently but thoroughly mix.
  6. Gently push the halved, hard-boiled eggs yolk-down into the mixture, spaced so that each portion contains a half-egg.
  7. Boil the potatoes and mash them with a generous amount of butter and a little milk. The mash needs to be firmish, definitely not sloppy, but capable of spreading.
  8. Using a dessert spoon or similar, gently top the casserole mixture with the mashed potato and spread the mash out with the back of the spoon to ensure a thorough and even coverage.
  9. Draw the tines of a dinner fork “backwards” to create a light ridging effect. This step will help to get some crispy highlights in the end-product but can be omitted.
  10. Add the garnish of sliced tomatoes if wished. Indeed, add any garnish that you’d like!
  11. Place the casserole on the middle shelf of the oven and cook for 30-40 minutes at Gas Mark 5 or the equivalent on an electric oven - my Neff Circotherm setting is 160C.
  12. Serve piping hot with vegetables of your choice. Frozen peas are a quick and easy choice. I like broccoli and carrots with this dish.

Smoked fish imparts a lot of flavour so to make sure this dish is still tasty, stir in an extra handful. Fish expert Mitch Tonks' fish pie recipe has bags of flavour from the smoked haddock, prawns and cod. 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 heat-bronzed finish in the oven It is a dish good for children but can be made into unapologetic dinner-party fare by poaching the fish in a little white wine, making the white sauce with light cream. A Fish Pie fit for a king! Flakes of fish smothered in a creamy white sauce, topped with mashed potato then baked until golden brown, a wonderful centrepiece for Easter you can make with fresh, smoked and even canned fish. "This delicious fish pie is a great excuse to pack in the veg, so use whatever you have to hand - even frozen peas!

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