Fish pie

Jamie Oliver Fish pie recipe

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Date Published:
22/10/2007

Jamie:

"This is a fantastically simple fish pie which doesn’t involve poaching the fish or making a tedious white sauce. Loads of good, fragrant veg are added quickly by grating them in. You can use whatever fish you like, making this as luxurious as you want it to be. If you like your fish pie to be creamy, feel free to add a few tablespoons of crème fraîche to the fish.
P.S. Some of the supermarkets now offer lovely packs of different fish and shellfish for using in fish pies. Keep a look-out, and if you buy one you want it to be about 700-750g in weight for this recipe."

Taken from Jamie's Ministry of Food.

Watch the video of Jamie making this fish pie recipe

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

  • Sea salt
  • 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
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Optional: a good handful of spinach, chopped
  • Optional: a couple of ripe tomatoes, quartered

Method: How to make fish pie

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. If you want to add any spinach or tomatoes, do it now. Mix everything together really well.

5. 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.

6. 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.

Watch the video of Jamie making this fish pie recipe

Follow the step-by-step guide to making Jamie's fish pie

Recipe taken from Jamie's Ministry of Food.
This recipe is from Jamie's Ministry of Food (published by Penguin). Photography Copyright © 2008 David Loftus.





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  1. Delicious. i grated some fennel bulb in too, really nice
    Posted by M on 26/09/2009 14:50:53
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  2. I'm no chef, leave that to the husband but tried out Jamie's fish pie and found it easy and VERY scrummie! I've made it two weeks in a row now as the family love it.
    Posted by Nikki L on 02/09/2009 14:00:23
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  3. First time I visited this website. What a brilliant idea to have a video, it makes everything so clear. I will definitely be making this for my friends this Saturday evening.
    Posted by normashaw on 27/08/2009 11:30:51
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  4. Fab recipe, really easy to make, tastes great, all the family loved it!
    Posted by Jean on 24/08/2009 18:13:00
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  5. LOVELY recipe, quick and simple, tasty and satisfying! I used basil and leeks instead of lemon zest and chilles. I generally make it with trout (a bit bony, be warned!), but also lovely with mixed shellfish and white fish. Definitely a staple in my house now. Thank you, Jamie.
    Posted by Lulu on 13/07/2009 18:40:40
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  6. A nice recipe which works well, but perhaps a little too tart for a child's palate. Next time I'll use less lemon zest and omit the chilli.
    Posted by Abu Wanas on 29/06/2009 20:29:09
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  7. Fantastic recipe. Great for those who don't like a very rich fish pie with loads of sauce. Used a whole chilli too!
    Posted by Shelley on 27/06/2009 14:08:03
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  8. My sister & I recently made this fish pie for our family, they all loved it & have asked for the recipe. The recipe was so easy to follow..anybody could do it..will do it again when we have family to visit.
    Posted by Bridget Carmody on 08/06/2009 12:15:43
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  9. I love this meal. I make it a few times a month now. People are shocked at my culinary skills when I pull this out the oven and they taste it. It makes my mouth water just thinking about the flavours. My girlfriends sister who doesn't like fish loves it too.
    Posted by A N Other on 16/03/2009 10:52:35
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  10. easy peasie and delicious to boot my four children loved it the biggest baby my other half loved it and i loved it too 10/10 i wouldnt add the juice of a whole lemon though next time just half.
    Posted by bettyboop on 13/03/2009 17:54:56
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  11. I made this for the first time today - hadnt tried it yet but was easy peasy Lioniel Squeezy to make!
    Posted by Tish Tosh on 08/03/2009 21:40:30
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  12. I tried to watch the video of Jamie making his fish pie and every few seconds, the video just stopped, in all this happened about 6/7 times for nearly half a minute each time. This was very annoying as you can imagine and I wonder if anything can be done to stop this happening. Otherwise a very helpful video, well done Jamie.
    Posted by davina on 03/02/2009 12:47:51
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  13. i think you do a fab job
    Posted by sue on 06/01/2009 11:18:23
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  14. it sounds rather lovely. will give it a try. but can i use 1 fish instead of 3?
    Posted by nicki on 06/01/2009 04:09:48
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  15. Great!!! I am not the most accomplished cook in the world but thought I would give this a go. Changed the ingredients a bit given the family's likes and dislikes and what we had in the fridge! I used Smoked salmon steak, cod, onion, leak and garlic. Tasted great and there were clean plates all around. Thanks Phil.
    Posted by Phil McS on 02/01/2009 16:07:26
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  16. Bloody lovely Jamie - now become a staple in our house.
    Posted by Oatesy on 06/11/2008 19:40:38
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  17. Superb dish, banging flavour, even our 5 month old son loved it (minus the prawns)
    Posted by jonandzoe on 04/11/2008 17:16:41
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  18. Hold on a minute Annie G, what do you call cheap then? Just because it's got salmon in it doesn't mean it's too expensive - it's £2 for a pack in tesco right now. In any case the recipe says just use any fish, haddock is £3 for 500gms, that's enough for a fish pie (will easily feed me and my 3 16 -21 year olds, for about £5) I'd make two, then the same effort does for 2 meals, and it also uses up the celery. Just eat the left-overs..
    Posted by DebraC on 15/10/2008 10:21:38
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  19. jamie, you gotta be joking - all that fish - you are preaching to poorer people who unlike yourself would struggle to pay the price of this fish. And what about the celery? Don't you understand that people don't want to buy a whole celery to use 2 sticks and then not know what to do with the rest so end up throwing it out. you are aiming at people who know nothing about cooking - perhaps you should have shown celery soup or braised celery in the same show cos we have to teach people to use all of the food they buy to make it affordable for them to buy these ingredients - your heart's in the right place, bless you, but I think you have been rich too long to be able to walk in the shoes of people genuinely counting the pennies - you could really have shown people how to cook and also concentrated on the budget end of cooking cos there are plenty of great meals you could have made for low cost
    Posted by annieg on 15/10/2008 00:48:53
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