Fish pie
Recipe: Fish pie
From: Various sources plus mods
Serves: 6 hungry people
400g frozen haddock fillets (or any other white fish)
200g frozen prawns
200g cremini mushrooms, quartered
100g butter
50g flour
500ml milk plus a bit extra or some white wine
75g cheddar cheese grated
1 kg potatoes, peeled and cut in chunks
1 onion, peeled and quartered
Handful parsley, chpped fine
salt, pepper, nutmeg, thyme, bayleaf
Defrost the fish and prawns. Shell the prawns, reserving the shells, devein etc.
Saute the mushrooms in a little of the butter.
Put the haddock, prawn shells, onion, bayleaf and thyme in a shallow pan with the 500ml milk. Bring to a bare simmer and poach for 8 minutes.
Remove the cooked fish and flake into bite size chunks.
Strain the milk through a sieve pushing down on the shells etc to extract maximum flavour. You should have about 600ml of liquid.
Reserve 50g of butter.
Boil the potatoes and mash with the balance of the butter and as much of the milk as you need to make mashed potatoes of your preferred consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Make the remaining liquid up to 500ml using milk or, better, white wine.
Make a white sauce using the 50g butter, 50g flour and 500ml liquid. Simmer it very gently for about 10 minutes and season rather highly with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Heat the oven to 200C/400F
Take a suitable sized dish and put the fish, prawns and mushrooms in it. Sprinkle with the parsley and pour over the sauce.
Cover the whole thing with mashed potato working from the outside in. Top with the grated cheese.
Bake in the hot oven for 30-35 minutes until everything is hot and bubbly.
Serve with a green vegetable or a salad.
Possible variations are endless. Classic variations would include using smoked haddock instead of, or as well as, the prawns, adding sliced hardboiled eggs, using salmon as the main ingredient and substituting dill for parsley. All in all, I see as a great way of using frozen fish when it's on special as it really isn't quite good enough to serve plain.
From: Various sources plus mods
Serves: 6 hungry people
400g frozen haddock fillets (or any other white fish)
200g frozen prawns
200g cremini mushrooms, quartered
100g butter
50g flour
500ml milk plus a bit extra or some white wine
75g cheddar cheese grated
1 kg potatoes, peeled and cut in chunks
1 onion, peeled and quartered
Handful parsley, chpped fine
salt, pepper, nutmeg, thyme, bayleaf
Defrost the fish and prawns. Shell the prawns, reserving the shells, devein etc.
Saute the mushrooms in a little of the butter.
Put the haddock, prawn shells, onion, bayleaf and thyme in a shallow pan with the 500ml milk. Bring to a bare simmer and poach for 8 minutes.
Remove the cooked fish and flake into bite size chunks.
Strain the milk through a sieve pushing down on the shells etc to extract maximum flavour. You should have about 600ml of liquid.
Reserve 50g of butter.
Boil the potatoes and mash with the balance of the butter and as much of the milk as you need to make mashed potatoes of your preferred consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Make the remaining liquid up to 500ml using milk or, better, white wine.
Make a white sauce using the 50g butter, 50g flour and 500ml liquid. Simmer it very gently for about 10 minutes and season rather highly with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Heat the oven to 200C/400F
Take a suitable sized dish and put the fish, prawns and mushrooms in it. Sprinkle with the parsley and pour over the sauce.
Cover the whole thing with mashed potato working from the outside in. Top with the grated cheese.
Bake in the hot oven for 30-35 minutes until everything is hot and bubbly.
Serve with a green vegetable or a salad.
Possible variations are endless. Classic variations would include using smoked haddock instead of, or as well as, the prawns, adding sliced hardboiled eggs, using salmon as the main ingredient and substituting dill for parsley. All in all, I see as a great way of using frozen fish when it's on special as it really isn't quite good enough to serve plain.