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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipes Fish pie recipe

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Date Published:
04/09/2007
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Serves 4-6

Ingredients

  • 1 pint of cooked prawns
  • 300g smoked haddock
  • 300g fresh haddock
  • 300g organic salmon
  • 750ml mil
  • 1 chopped onion
  • 1 chopped carrot
  • 1 chopped stick celery
  • a bay leaf
  • a few peppercorns
  • a few parsley stalks
  • 50g butter
  • 75g plain flour
  • 1 tbsp each chopped parsley and chives
  • 3 hard-boiled eggs
  • salt and pepper
  • enough creamy mashed potato to cover the pie
  • buttered peas to serve

Method: How to make fish pie

1. Shell 1 pint of cooked prawns, putting the shells in a pan. Take 300g each of smoked haddock, fresh haddock and organic salmon and slice all the fish off its skin. Add the skins to the saucepan. Cut the raw fish into 2cm cubes, combine with the prawns and set aside.

2. Add 750ml milk to the pan, along with 1 chopped onion, 1 chopped carrot, 1 chopped stick celery, a bay leaf, a few peppercorns and a few parsley stalks. Bring to a simmer then set aside to infuse for at least one hour.

3. Strain the milk into a jug. Melt 50g butter in a pan, add 75g plain flour and stir well. Cook for a couple of minutes then add the infused milk gradually. Cook gently for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat, season and add 1 tbsp each chopped parsley and chives, along with the fish and prawns.

fish pie

4. Arrange 3 halved hard-boiled eggs over the base of a pie dish (about 30 x 20cm). Spoon over the fish mixture, then top with spoonfuls of creamy mashed potato, raking the top into wavy lines with a fork.

5. Dot with a little butter, and bake at 200°c/Gas Mark 6 for 25 minutes or until brown. Serve with buttered peas.

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  1. As a "self sufficiency nut", with dreams of aquaculture, chicken, quail,and rabbit farming and yes even pigeon farming, all in my backyard,(and I'm working on achieving this) I just love your show. I have one small request. We in Australia metricated in 1970 around the same time you did, I believe. And we too have a lot of indolent people who should have changed 40 years ago but who were too lazy. I believe you and all in the public eye have a duty to educate as well as inform and entertain. So would you please consider using only metrics. For example your fish pie recipe says "one PINT of cooked prawns" (you don't say shelled or unshelled). Surely that should be say, 600ml, or better still 1kg or 600gm or whatever a pint of prawns is in weight instead of volume? In Oz we buy them by the kg. Please accept my apologies for salivating all over your page. Regards Trevor Kirk From the land of Oz
    Posted by Trevor Kirk on 30/12/2008 08:54:30
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  2. Can you give advice on freezing this? Do you freeze after it has cooled then consume within one month, thoroughly heating back up with a little water and perhaps some oil for about 10-15 mins? I always cook fresh food everyday but learning the best freezing methods would make it easier. Any tips would be appreciated.
    Posted by kc on 23/10/2008 21:59:17
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