I must confess that this isn't the first time I have used this recipe but each time I make it,I love it and wanted to share on here.
Fish Pie
serves 4-6
Ingredients
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
1kg potatoes
1 carrot
2 sticks of celery
150g good Cheddar cheese
1 lemon
½ a fresh red chilli
4 sprigs of fresh flat-leaf parsley
300g salmon fillets, skin off and bones removed
300g undyed smoked haddock fillets, skin off and bones removed
125g king prawns, raw, peeled
olive oil
optional: a good handful of spinach, chopped
optional: a couple of ripe tomatoes, quartered
To prepare your fish pie
Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and bring a large pan of salted water to the boil
Peel the potatoes and cut into 2cm chunks
Once the water is boiling, add your potatoes and cook for around 12 minutes, until soft (you can stick your knife into them to check)
Meanwhile, get yourself a deep baking tray or earthenware dish and stand a box grater in it
Peel the carrot
Grate the celery, carrot and Cheddar on the coarse side of the grater
Use the fine side of the grater to grate the zest from the lemon
Finely grate or chop your chilli
Finely chop the parsley leaves and stalks and add these to the tray
Cut the salmon and smoked haddock into bite-size chunks and add to the tray with the prawns
Squeeze over the juice from the zested lemon (no pips please!), drizzle with olive oil and add a good pinch of salt and pepper
If you want to add any spinach or tomatoes, do it now
Mix everything together really well
By now your potatoes should be cooked, so drain them in a colander and return them to the pan
Drizzle with a couple of good lugs of olive oil and add a pinch of salt and pepper
Mash until nice and smooth, then spread evenly over the top of the fish and grated veg
Place in the preheated oven for around 40 minutes, or until cooked through, crispy and golden on top
Serve piping hot with tomato ketchup, baked beans, steamed veg or a lovely green salad
Now if your expecting a traditional style fish pie with lots of sauce then you couldn't be more wrong.
But what you do get is a very easy delicious pie . You may have heard chefs talking about different flavours with each mouthful and think 'yeah yeah' but I could definately say that with this pie, especially with the chilli,lemon and cheese.
It really was easy and everything thrown together. The 1st time I made this I followed the recipe exactly however we all found the taste of salmon over powering so I've used just plain white fish since, but I guess this is just down to personal taste. I also added some sweetcorn and I'm sure you could add other veg too.
Truly delicious.
The recipe is from this book http://www.jamieoliver.com/jamies-ministry-of-food/
If I could pick only one recipe book to own then this would be it. It is fantastic with many adaptations on simple dishes, and almost fool proof.
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- kathryn
- Most of my cooking as an adult involved opening a jar of ‘chicken tonight’ or ‘ragu’ and my most adventurous meal would be a roast chicken. Cooking was never something I enjoyed, it was something that needed to be done to feed the family. That is until I met Rob. I got lucky with that one as he loved cooking and was fabulous at it. Fantastic, I would never have to ‘cook’ again……. Or so I thought!!! Being with Rob and seeing what he could throw together and still make taste fab triggered something in me to give it a go. He also had a good range of celebrity chef cook books which seemed to get added to every Christmas, and his love of watching cookery programmes seemed to rub off on me. So I have decided to try and work my way through the hundreds of recipes we have and to be a little more adventurous with food rather than sticking to the handful of recipes I know and trust.And at the same time try to make my meals go further. Blogging seemed the ideal way to record my efforts and review the recipes.
Is it spicy? I'm not keen on any kind of spice at all...do you think it would lose something if I left the chilli out?
ReplyDeleteNo its not spicy at all even with the chilli which sounds a bit odd it just adds a bit of a kick to it and its only half a chilli.My children eat it no problem.
ReplyDeleteOh and I think the chilli balances out the lemon in it so for me I wouldn't want to leave it out but I guess theres no reason not to.
ReplyDeleteOk shall give it a try thank you
ReplyDeleteOh and the house doesn't stink of fish after.
ReplyDeleteIt's really great with a big dolop of ketchup on the side too!
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