This Midweek Fish Pie from Ronnie Murray is a brilliant family feeder! Cod, salmon, smoked haddock and prawns and a delicious cheese sauce with mustard, capers and peas topped with creamy mash! Quick, easy, delicious!
Ingreadient :
2 fillets of cod, skinned and pin boned
2 fillets of undyed smoked haddock, skinned and pin boned
2 portions of salmon, skinned and pin boned
150g cooked peeled prawns
1 kg maris piper potatoes, peeled and cut into pieces if very large
60g butter
100g milk
1 egg yolk
Sea salt flakes and ground white pepper
30g plain flour
40g butter
400g milk
200g double cream
1 packet parsley chopped
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
50g diced gherkins
20g chopped capers
100g grated cheddar
100g frozen peas
Direction :
180°c fan oven for 30 mins
Gas mark 6 for 15 turn and 15 more
Start by putting the potatoes on to boil in salted water. Drain and mash, bring the milk, butter and cream to the boil. Slowly add this to the mashed potatoes and season to taste. I use white pepper for mashed potatoes. Beat in the egg yolk. This helps give the mash a crispy top when cooked but you could leave it out. Cover and set aside. It’s easier if the mash is still warm when you come to pipe it onto the top of the fish pie.
Next, cut the fish into fork friendly size pieces and arrange in a suitable oven proof dish. Place the prawns evenly around the fish.
Next, make a roux for the sauce. Melt the butter on a low heat. When melted but not too hot add the flour. Using a wooden spoon stir the flour into the melted butter, cook out the flour for a couple of mins. Then using a jug, slowly add the cream and milk a little at a time stirring all the time until the sauce is nice and thick.
Add the grated cheese into the sauce, stir until melted. Add in the rest of the ingredients, the frozen peas will help cool the mix down. Pour the sauce over the fish in the dish. If you have time put this in the fridge for 30 mins as this will make piping the mash a little easier.
Lastly, pipe the mash on top of the mixture. Or spoon it on.
Put the dish onto a baking tray in case it boils over during cooking. Cook as above.