Fish Pie Recipe



Fish Pie Recipes

Ingredients :

For the top of the pie:

725g potatoes

50g butter

75ml milk

2 tomatoes

50g grated cheese

For the filling:

725g white fish (cod or haddock for example)

500ml milk

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

125g mushrooms

125g onions

25g butter

White sauce made from:

500ml milk (in which you have cooked the fish)

50g flour

50g butter

Method :

Set the oven to 180C, Mark 4. Peel the potatoes. Boil them in plenty of salted water for 20 minutes or until they are tender. Drain them and mash them with the butter and milk. Check the seasoning. Add more salt and pepper if necessary. Put the potatoes on one side, but keep them warm. Wash the fish. Put it in a large saucepan with enough milk to cover it. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cook slowly for 8-10 minutes. While the fish is cooking, peel and chop the onions. Wash and slice the mushrooms. Put 25g of butter in a small saucepan and cook the onions slowly for 5 minutes. Do not let them brown. Then add the mushrooms and cook them for 2 minutes. Remove the mushrooms and onions from the saucepan and keep them warm.

When the fish is cooked, take it out of the milk in the saucepan. Keep the milk. Remove the skin and bones from the fish. Chop the fish into small pieces. In the small saucepan melt 50g butter. Add 50g flour and cook slowly for 2 minutes. Stir well with a wooden spoon. Take the saucepan off the heat. Add the milk in which the fish was cooked. Check that you have 500ml. If not, add a little more. Stir well. There must not be any lumps in the sauce. Put the saucepan back on the heat. Bring to the boil, stirring all the time. Boil the sauce for three minutes, still stirring. Add the co0oked onions and mushrooms and the fish. Check the seasoning. Add more salt and pepper if necessary. Rub the inside of an ovenproof dish with butter. Put the fish mixture at the bottom of the dish. Then put the mashed potato on the top. Put it on a little at a time or the potato will disappear into the fish mixture.

Make the top of the potato flat and mark it with a fork. Then slice the tomatoes and put the slices on top of the potato. Then, lastly, put a little grated cheese on the top. Cook the pie in the middle of the oven at 80C, Mark 4 for 20 minutes. Then cook for 10 minutes more at 200C, Mark 6. The top must be golden brown. Serve with green peas or beans or grilled tomatoes.

Serves 4-6

This is a very tasty dish. It is useful because you can make it some time before you are going to eat it. You must heat the pie again in the oven at 190C, Mark 5, for 45 minutes.


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