Old fashioned fish pie
Prep
45m
Cook
40m
serves
4
Old-fashioned fish pie
This British-inspired fish pie recipe is the perfect comfort food for when the temperature begins to drop.
Ingredients (16)
- 4 cloves
- 1 onion, halved
- 3 cups (750ml) milk
- 1 bay leaf
- 450g blue-eye cod, skinned, pin-boned
- 450g smoked haddock or cod
- 3 hard-boiled eggs, roughly chopped
- 350g small cooked prawns, peeled, tails removed, vein removed
- 75g butter
- 1/2 cup (75g) plain flour
- 200ml thick cream
- Pinch of grated nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons chopped dill
- 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 4 sheets butterpuff pastry sheets
- 1 egg, beaten
Don't forget you can add these ingredients to your Woolworths shopping list.
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1.Stick cloves into onion halves and place in a saucepan with milk, bay leaf and fish. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for about 8 minutes. Remove fish with fish slice and cool slightly. Strain cooking liquor into a jug, discarding solids. Flake fish into large chunks, discarding any bones. Place into a bowl with eggs and prawns, then season.
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2.Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add flour and cook, stirring, for 1-2 minutes. Add reserved liquor and cook, stirring, until mixture starts to thicken. Add cream and simmer for 5 minutes. Add nutmeg and herbs, then season. Pour over fish, then cool.
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3.Preheat oven to 180°C. Pour mixture in four 500ml pie dishes. Cut 1cm-wide strips from the edge of pastry sheets. Press around rims of dishes and brush with a little water. Sit sheets on top, pressing lightly to seal. Cut off any excess pastry. Cut 2 small slashes in tops for steam.
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4.Brush pastry with egg and bake for 25 minutes or until pastry is risen and golden.
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